Eskom warns that load shedding will continue
Eskom has warned South African that they may continue to experience load shedding, although the power utility says it is doing everything in its power to avoid it.
The power utility briefed the media on Thursday morning on the company’s operational performance.
Eskom COO Jan Oberholzer told journalists it is difficult to say when would the country experience power cuts again.
"However the risk of load shedding would be stage one, and we do foresee the possibility of stage two as well at this point in time," said Oberholzer.
Group Chief Executive André de Ruyter said a further emergency procurement of 2000 megawatts of generation capacity and self-generation of power by the industry, as announced by government, is a step in the right direction.
"We look forward to the rapid progress on the implication of this, again this will assist us in revealing pressure on our generation system which is unreliable and unpredictable and the more capacity we can add to the grid in a short space of time - the lower the risk of load shedding would become.”
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