South Africa is going through probably the most extreme nationwide energy cuts in months after state-owned energy utility Eskom Holdings introduced that it will implement so-called Stage 6 outages — taking 6 000 megawatts of demand off the grid — from midnight Saturday till additional discover.
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The elevated energy outages come even after Eskom returned two producing models to service, with the utility taking one other two models offline, Eskom stated in an announcement on X.
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Saturday, 10 February 2024:
Regardless of returning two producing models to service during the last 24 hours, two producing models have been additionally taken offline. This mixed with the necessity to replenish the pumped storage dams in preparation for the week forward,…
— Eskom Hld SOC Ltd (@Eskom_SA) February 9, 2024
“This mixed with the necessity to replenish the pumped storage dams in preparation for the week forward, necessitated the implementation of Stage 6 loadshedding from midnight till additional discover,” in accordance with the assertion.
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