Eskom cut 7,000MW from the grid, but there was no official move to stage 7 load shedding.
South Africa’s struggling state-owned utility Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. appears to have reached an unprecedented level of power cuts, indicated late Tuesday by the company spokesman.
The company cut 7,045 megawatts from the grid, a practice locally referred to as loadshedding, in order to keep the grid from a total collapse, Sikonathi Mantshantsha said in a post on Twitter. While that would be the deepest level of outage on record, so-called Stage 7 power cuts were not formally announced on Eskom’s schedule.
The most recent announcement said the utility is implementing Stage 6, where it removes 6,000 megawatts. Eskom’s media desk didn’t immediately respond to an email seeking comment, and Mantshantsha didn’t immediately respond to a phone call and a text message.Eskom GT’s Utilised: 3
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