Around 8am on Thursday morning, Eskom implemented stage two loadshedding and said it was the last resort to protect the national grid
Eskom is sounding a note of warning that the constrained supply situation might last till weekend.
Around 8am on Thursday morning, it implemented stage two loadshedding and said it was the last resort to protect the national grid.
The power cuts began at 8am and they should last till 10 pm today.
Eskom confessed that it has been battling breakdowns at its aging power plants and the technicians are seriously working to making sure generation units are back online.
However, the utility mentioned that its system is under strain, which means that it could surge the outages to stage three during this evening’s peak period.
All the same, around 5am this morning, tens of thousands of people living on the west rand, the Vaal, and Soweto had their power cut off.
Eskom made it known that the implementation of the so-called ‘load reduction’ in these areas is to prevent network overloading.
Apparently, power should be restored to these communities at 9am, but doubts are still on high stake on how loadshedding will have an impact on them subsequently.
