Cape Town - Eskom has announced that it would implement stage 1 load shedding from 5pm on Tuesday and was expecting it to last until 10pm due to a shortage of generation capacity as several units were currently out of service due to maintenance.
“Because of maintenance, the system will not be able to meet 1 000MW of demand, meaning that although certain areas will be without electricity for a certain period, about 96% of South Africans will still continue to receive power supply at the same time,” Eskom said in a statement.
“Eskom would like to assure customers that load shedding is implemented as a necessary measure to protect the power system and to ensure that maintenance is carried out in order to guarantee that our supply of electricity can be maintained in the long term.”
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