Chance of power cuts next week

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Parliament - After a run of 25 days without loadshedding, there was chance that Eskom could schedule level one outages in the next week as it tackles major maintenance, acting CEO Brian Molefe said on Friday.

Molefe told media at Parliament the possibility of renewed load-shedding would be at play until September 12.

He said the past three weeks free of outages did not mean that Eskom had reverted to its former policy of keeping the lights on at all costs but had mostly been able to juggle maintenance to the grid in such a way that it had maintained a big enough capacity reserve to avert loadshedding.

“Here we are breaching our own budget of 4,500 (megawatts gap between demand and capacity). We are going to do it, we are going to leave a small margin and if we have to do loadshedding between the fourth of September and the 12th of September we are going to do it. Then so be it. Maybe we won’t go into loadshedding because we still have a small reserve,” he said.

http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/chance-of-power-cuts-next-week-1.1911160#.VerrlX2-Opo

 

[Dan C]

They were suppose to loadshed today, but manage not to.

 

[Mephisto_Helix]

A forecast of loadshedding maybe being needed because they're doing maintenance - I can deal with.

 

[reactor_sa]

Soon as there's a little bit of cold, they start the loadshedding again. All those shacks and rdp houses clocking those hacked meters.....

 

[Johnatan56]

Soon as there's a little bit of cold, they start the loadshedding again. All those shacks and rdp houses clocking those hacked meters.....

Really warm day in Cape Town, 30C.

 

[schumi]

Power alert is colourful today