In recent weeks the country has experienced it’s greatest power crisis yet, an Eskom utility has battled to keep the lights on since the collapse of one of its coal storage silos, diesel shortages, and maintenance issues. On December 5, Eskom implemented stage three “load shedding” for the whole country.
Stage one allows for up to 1000MW of the national load to be shed, stage two for up to 2000MW, and stage three for up to 4000MW.
Ignoring all the given facts and load shedding schedules, Eskom CEO Tshediso Matona denied that the state utility was in a crisis for Eskom.
On the brighter side of things four Eskom generators, that had stopped working at three power stations, were functional again on Wednesday morning, an official said.
“As we speak now this morning, we have recovered those units,” acting spokesperson Khulu Phasiwe tells News24.
“The system is no longer as tight as it was. We have relatively stabilised the power system,” he said.
Phasiwe also clarifies why the generators had stopped working and explains that the power utility needed to build up its diesel and water reserves, which it had used for the past few days as an alternative supplier.
The generators had stopped working at three different power stations on Tuesday.
Phasiwe says the risk of rolling blackouts still remains, but is at a low at the moment.
