Fri, 7 March 2025

Eskom announced stage 3 load-shedding from 2pm on Friday after a loss of 2700MW in the past 14 hours.

Unit 2 at Koeberg Nuclear power station was taken offline again after being brought back on Wednesday, and two Kusile units whose coal operations went sub-optimal following adverse weather in the area were also removed from service.

The constrained capacity resulted in the increased reliance on emergency reserves during this week, which makes it necessary to focus on replenishing these critical resources during the weekend in preparation for the business week.

“We have had some delays in returning units that previously tripped back to the grid, as well as to the return of three units that have been on longer-term outage that will bring back 2500MW to the grid, which will happen over the coming weeks,” said the Eskom’s Group Executive for Generation, Bheki Nxumalo.

Eskom said it is focused on deploying extra engineering resources to expedite the repair of units that are currently offline, and anticipate that 6200MW will be restored to service by Monday’s evening peak.

Koeberg unit 2 tripped earlier in the week during the execution of work on unit 1, which is currently offline for work to be conducted as part of the Long-Term Operation (LTO) program.

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