Eskom Latest: Cuts Ramp Up, Restoring Pylons May Take Five Days
South Africa has endured more than 100 days of rotational blackouts this year.
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South Africa’s state-owned electricity provider, Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., has had to implement the worst rolling blackouts since Feb. 26 after generating units at six power stations were unable to contribute to meeting demand.
Eskom will continue to implement so-called stage 6 loadshedding until 5am on Thursday, then reducing to 5,000 megawatts until 4 p.m. before returning to 6,000-megawatt blackouts, with this pattern to continue indefinitely, it said on Twitter. The utility’s previous plan was to keep power cuts to 5,000 megawatts.