Eskom’s spokesperson says ongoing rain and units failing to come back online mean load shedding will endure.
Eskom is implementing stage 2 load shedding on Sunday, after much the same for most of Saturday.
The rotational power cuts should be in place until 11pm and are likely to continue into the workweek.
Generating units have remained out of service due to breakdowns.
“Last night [Thursday] we implemented load shedding because we wanted to augment water resources. Some of the units we expected to come back [online] did not come back,” Eskom’s spokesperson explained on Friday.
“Further to that, this morning [Friday], because of the rain, we are starting to experience coal-handling issues because some stations now have wet coal, and thus more units are not able to generate.”
This follows Eskom not only continuing load shedding for far longer than initially advertised on Thursday.
They said they had suffered “further unplanned breakdowns”, a phrase they have continued to use in subsequent communications.
Date: 08 December 2019
Stage 2 rotational loadshedding will be implemented from 09:00 until 23:00 tonight.@News24 @TimesLIVE@iol @ewnupdates @SABCNewsOnline @SAfmRadio @POWER987News @ukhozi_fm @METROFMSA @TheCitizen_News pic.twitter.com/Ej6vHOVUM8
— Eskom Hld SOC Ltd (@Eskom_SA) December 8, 2019
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