Eskom

The utility is struggling with one of its power stations, resulting in three units being shut down, with four units coming offline shortly.

Unless South Africa aggressively invests in renewable energy and relaxes air quality, Eskom might need to implement stage 15 load shedding.

Eskom is short of the skills it needs, particularly in engineering and the electricity supply industry.

People with experience in running power stations are being brought back to help with the plant operation, management and mentorship.

A further update will be published on Wednesday afternoon, as soon as there are significant changes.

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The highest stages of load shedding reached is stage 6, and there are fears that stages 7 and 8 could be on the horizon as the grid remains volatile.

Nersa says Eskom's application, plus three additional amounts since it was filed, could result in a price of R202.29c per kilowatt per hour.

Overnight a unit each at Camden, Kriel and Kendal were returned but unfortunately had to take off a unit at Duvha which developed a boiler tube leak.

Cape Town said it is working to build reserves to enable it to protect customers from two stages of Eskom's load shedding over the week ahead, where possible.

As of May 2022, Andre de Ruyter was earning R7.04 million per year.

A press briefing will be held at 10h00 to give update on the situation.

The utility had 16,597MW of capacity unavailable due to breakdowns, while another 7,210MW was offline for planned maintenance.

The electricity supplier said stage 4 will be extended to Thursday and Friday with the possibilities of lower stages on Saturday.

Around 24 000MW was lost, five of those units remain offline.

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Stage 2 load shedding will continue from 05h00 on Wednesday until 22h00 Saturday night.

Eskom said Tshwane had only paid R68 million for the July invoice, due on 17 August 2022

The power utility sais it might implement stage 2 load shedding between 16:00-00:00

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Stage 2 load shedding is anticipated to be implemented on Friday

The power utility might implement stage 2 load shedding between 16:00 and 00:00 from Tuesday to Friday

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