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Eskom said that Stage 5 load shedding was due to the breakdown of five generating units overnight.
Stage 5 load shedding amounts to shedding 5 000 MW. This means South Africans will effectively experience about 8 hours of load shedding per day.
Stage 4 load shedding means you will be scheduled for load shedding 12 times over a 4-day period for two hours at a time or 12 times over an 8-day period for four hours at a time.
‘Regretfully, the breakdown of five generating units overnight and this morning, with a combined capacity of 2 400MW, has necessitated the escalation of load shedding to Stage 5 from 10am.
‘This load shedding will be implemented until 5am on Monday,” said Eskom on Saturday.’
A unit each at Kusile, Arnot and Camden, as well as two units at Duvha Power Station tripped.
Eskom said it was necessary to escalate the load shedding to stop the use of the emergency generation reserves and begin the replenishment thereof ahead of the week.
The power utility said the emergency generation reserves have been depleted by extensive utilisation to limit the amount of load shedding over the past two weeks.
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