Starting on Monday afternoon, Stage 2 load-shedding will be implemented from 16:00 until 05:00 every morning until further notice.

The nightly implementation of load-shedding is mainly due to the need to preserve emergency generation reserves due to high breakdowns.

Eskom will publish a further update as soon as there are significant changes.

This morning a generation unit at Kriel Power Station was returned to service while the return to service of a unit at Majuba Power Station has been delayed.

We currently have 4 963MW on planned maintenance, while another 14 107MW of capacity is unavailable due to breakdowns.

Load-shedding is implemented only as a last resort in view of the shortage of generation capacity and the need to attend to breakdowns.

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