Loadshedding
Despite load shedding, National Arts Festival must go on: Organisers
The CEO of the festival said they've made contingency plans to ensure that load shedding does not ruin the event.
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Cold front expected to hit Gauteng from Wednesday
Temperatures in Johannesburg are expected to hit a high of 12 and a low of zero degrees.
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Load shedding could be implemented at short notice, warns Eskom
Eskom said due to a continued shortage of generation capacity, the power system will be very constrained this evening and over the next few days and that load shedding may be required at short notice.
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Eskom's Kusile power station inadvertently caused power failure, says official
Only four out of Kusile's six units are currently operational.
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What EXACTLY is Eskom's problem? Lack of skilled technicians, engineers - study
Refilwe Moloto interviews Primaresearch’s Shamil Ismail, author of “Shedding light on Eskom”.
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Time to declare SA's power crisis a disaster & harness alternative power sources
John Maytham speaks to Professor Mark Swilling, co-Director at the Centre for Complex Systems in Transition and co-author of the 'Betrayal of the Promise' at Stellenbosch University about South Africa's dire energy issue.
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Eskom says it has been hit by sabotage again
A cable at the Hendrina station in Mpumalanga was also recently severed. Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan is blaming people who work at the facility.
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Struggling Eskom warns that power cuts may be ramped up at short notice
Stage two power cuts will be in effect from 5pm until 10pm every day this week.
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'Eskom misleads us a lot, there isn’t much put aside for maintenance'
Refilwe Moloto interviews energy expert Adil Nchabeleng.
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Be ready for more power cuts this week, says Eskom
The embattled power utility implemented stage 2 load shedding Monday evening after its generation units tripped.
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‘We shouldn’t make hasty decisions’ - Eskom not promising early end to loadshedding
The Eskom leadership held a media briefing on 4 May 2022 to give an update on the implementation of stage 2 loadshedding. The power utility’s COO reiterated that they didn’t want to make any hasty decisions nor announcements as to whether loadshedding would end before the set date. #Loadshedding #Eskom #Stage2
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'Eskom mess is not only from ANC but from corporate too, don't point fingers'
ANC head of economic transformation Mmamoloko Kubayi says the African National Congress is not responsible for the mess at Eskom, but individuals in the party are.
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Eskom says power grid remains 'vulnerable and unpredictable' ahead of weekend
Eskom said it will be able to keep the lights on this weekend after announcing it will end its latest bout of power cuts tonight following an improvement in generating capacity.
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City Power says power cuts putting a strain on its resources
City Power said that it was battling to deal with outages linked to vandalism of its infrastructure as well as the strain that the power cuts were putting on its teams.
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Lost profits: Rolling blackouts taking toll on small businesses
From barbers and hairdressers to take-aways and laundromats, small businesses are directly threatened by the sudden and often escalating blackouts.
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Eskom downgrades load shedding to stage 3 from Thursday night
It attributed the downgrade to recovery in generation capacity over the last 24 hours.
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Beyond stage 8... Eskom's Oberholzer explains scenario if diesel supply runs dry
Given the crisis in Ukraine and its impact on the oil price, there are serious concerns about the availability of the nine million litres of diesel needed per day for Eskom to use to avoid more severe power cuts.
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Eskom taking financial hit burning diesel to avoid more power cuts - Oberholzer
Eskom's chief operating officer Jan Oberholzer said that the utility had not covered itself with 'glory' but hoped that the public would understand how it avoided more severe power cuts.
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Eskom concerned about 16 units at risk of breaking down
The utility said that 10 of the units were at a medium risk of failing which would put extra pressure on the grid.
