No load shedding in the day - but maybe this evening: Eskom
Eskom announced a load-shedding-free start to Wednesday. The power utility said on its website that it “won’t be load shedding for the first part of today‚ as there is currently enough electricity generating capacity to meet demand”.However‚ while the “power system is stable at present”‚ it said that outage prognosis was very high‚ and “and should there be a need to load-shed in the evening‚ Eskom will advise the public accordingly”. Curiously‚ Eskom seemed to get ahead of itself and on Wednesday morning also posted a release dated “2015/04/23” with the headline “Eskom stops load shedding”.Clicking on the link‚ revealed that it was referring to it status as on “Tuesday‚ 21 April 2015” when “Eskom stopped stage 1 load shedding at about 21:45”.That release did‚ however‚ reveal that more load-shedding is likely as the “electricity supply system remains very vulnerable for the rest of the week due to a shortage of generation capacity”...
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