Power utility Eskom has announced that load shedding will be downgraded to stage 1 from 21h00 on Friday (4 February) until 05h00 on Monday (7 February).
This follows an improvement in the generation capacity, together with the traditionally reduced weekend demand, it said.
“While there has been an improvement in the generation capacity, and a significant recovery in the emergency generation reserves, caution is still called for as this is not sufficient to suspend load shedding at this point. “Eskom will continue to evaluate the system and make the necessary adjustments as soon as conditions allow.”
Since Thursday evening, a generating unit at the Kusile Power Station was returned to service while a unit at the Hendrina Power Station was shut down to repair a boiler tube leak.Eskom appealed to all South Africans to help limit the impact of load shedding by reducing the usage of electricity and to switch off non-essential items.
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