The shortest outage lasted approximately 23 minutes ... the new 198-MW Ukudu plant’s activation in September as the end to the island’s load shedding vulnerability. Though not online yet ...

In September 2024 ... The country was immediately plunged into Stage 3 load shedding. In a dramatic twist, on Sunday, 23 February Eskom announced in the dead of the night that Stage 6 load ...

While food inflation shows signs of easing, ongoing challenges from loadshedding, high transport costs, and drought ...

JOHANNESBURG - Power utility Eskom has warned about an increased risk of load shedding after it lost six generation units within just 12 hours. On Monday night, the utility indicated that it was ...

While Eskom did not implement stage 2 load shedding on Monday, the parastatal has warned South Africans of rolling blackouts at short notice. Eskom issued an urgent alert about a high risk of load ...

Eskom will implement Stage 3 load shedding from 14:00 on Friday and expects it to last all weekend until Monday at 05:00, it said in a statement. "To replenish emergency reserves over the weekend – ...

The power utility earlier this week warned of a high risk of load shedding due to several generation unit breakdowns. “This has assisted us to navigate through the peak demand today without ...

Load shedding is back in South Africa, but Eskom is confident that planned maintenance and new units coming online will provide relief to South Africans in winter. Speaking at a media briefing on ...

Load-shedding will be suspended at 10:00 after 3 000MW of generation capacity was recovered and sufficient emergency reserves replenished. The announcement by the power utility provides some ...