Eskom achieves no load shedding for the past 136 days

29 January 2016 - 09:46 By TMG Digital

A relieved Eskom says it is achieving a stable power system‚ enabling the utility to meet South Africa's electricity demands while performing the requisite maintenance on its power generating plants. "Eskom expects the system to remain stable throughout the rest of the summer period following a rigorous programme of planned maintenance without implementing load shedding."The outage plan for the 2015/16 financial year made provision for the execution of 10.5% planned maintenance (4 624 MW). Eskom is projecting to achieve 13% planned maintenance (5 725 MW) by the end of the current financial year. This reflects an increase of 2.5% (1 101 MW) over and above the initial planned maintenance scheduled for the current financial year."..

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