Tuesday load shedding prognosis ‘high’
Eskom started off the week well‚ with Monday being outage-free‚ but load shedding looks set to return on Tuesday. @Eskom_SA took to Twitter in the morning to congratulate itself: “Eskom did not implement load shedding yesterday”‚ before giving its almost usual outlook for the day: “The prognosis for today is once again low for the morning and high for the evening.”Monday night’s outlook was a departure from the norm‚ as the evening prognosis was “medium” rather than “high”.A high load shedding prognosis more often than not precedes an alert of imminent outages during the evening peak period – 5pm to 9pm – “as a result of increased electricity demand in the evening and power stations’ units being on maintenance”.Eskom’s website‚ as usual‚ said: “The power system is currently stable‚ enabling Eskom to perform maintenance without load shedding.”..
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