Stage 3 load-shedding returns on Wednesday evening

Eskom has announced the return of stage 3 load-shedding from Wednesday evening.

January 17, 2024 at 4:11 pm

"We regret any inconvenience caused and urge for patience from our customers as we work towards restoring normal power supply at the earliest opportunity," Kenya Power said in a statement. (Sandile Ndlovu/ File photo )

Eskom has announced the return of stage 3 load-shedding from Wednesday evening.

“In spite of the return to service of 3,200MW of generation capacity in the past 48 hours, the need to continue to do planned maintenance and the setback of losing four generating units necessitates the implementation of stage 3 load-shedding from 4pm until 5am on Thursday,” the utility said.

“Thereafter, stage 2 load-shedding will be implemented until 4pm. This pattern will be repeated until Saturday morning. Eskom will provide a further update on Friday afternoon.

Eskom said unplanned outages are at 14,894MW while planned maintenance is at 8,336MW.

The load forecast for the evening peak demand for Wednesday is 25,503MW.

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