Eskom changes long weekend load-shedding plan

Eskom has announced it will continue to implement stage 1 load-shedding until further notice.

The announcement brings with it a mix of good and bad news.

The utility originally intended to rotate between stage 1 and stage 2 over the weekend and the first two days of the coming week, with two 11-hour suspensions of the power cuts on Sunday and Tuesday.

Itdid not provide any explanation for the change in plan.

Eskom’s most recent evening peak statistics — for Friday, 17 March 2023 — showed it had total demand of 27,432MW at peak.

At the same time, it had 28,530MW of generation capacity available, an excess of 1,098MW.

However, because the utility was load-shedding around 1,834MW of electricity, it only sent out 25,598MW at peak.

It did not have to run any of its own or IPP open-cycle gas turbines.

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Eskom changes long weekend load-shedding plan