Load shedding takes backseat: 'We are winning', says Mr Electric | The Citizen

Eskom said there will be varying stages of load shedding from Friday until Monday morning. Picture: iStock

“We can see that consistently we have been at 15 000MW or less and one of the days, we even recorded just below 14 000MW. Ramokgopa said when the president introduced the electricity ministry portfolio, outage slippage – when the utility cannot return out-of-service units on time – accounted for some 2 900MW, which was “almost three stages of load shedding” and was now sitting at 1 351MW, which “we want to improve” further.

“As a result of improved generation capacity, we’ve got additional space to do what we call good maintenance, planned maintenance. Remember that one of the underlying assumptions was when we entered winter as part of our winter outlook.

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