This year’s load shedding is about to top 2022’s – and it’s only May
as Wednesday evening, the amount of electricity that Eskom has failed to provide will be greater than the power it couldn’t provide in the whole of 2022., a popular smartphone app for checking power cut schedules, shows that Eskom, up to Tuesday morning, had failed to supply 11.6GWh of demand, just shy of the 11.8GWh of demand it failed to meet in 2022.
South African equities researcher and analyst Dwaine van Vuuren, who spotted the impending development, calculated that, based on current load shedding, Eskom will hit last year’s ignominious number by Wednesday evening, 10 May. If Eskom’s woes continue at a similar level, load shedding will be more than twice as severe in 2023 as it was last year.
Eskom said it anticipates load shedding will continue at stage 6 – the worst-ever stage imposed so far – for the coming week. According to EWN, the utility’s interim spokeswoman Daphne Mokwena said it is working around the clock to return various units to service. “Over the weekend, a generation unit each at Majuba, Medupi, and Tutuka power stations was taken out of service due to breakdowns. Furthermore, the delay in returning units to service at Arnot, Camden, Hendrina, Majuba, Matla and Tutuka power stations continues to add to the current capacity constraints,” she said.
But the average stage for the day has been increasing steadily since July 2022, when it reached stage 4 for the first time. Since then, the average has hit stage 4 as many as 52 times up to the end of February 2023, and is steadily climbing higher each month.
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