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South Africa energy crisis update: Stage 4 blackouts until the weekend

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Eskom's 14 coal-fired power plants, with an average age of 41 years, provide 38.7 GW of the country's 52.5 GW installed capacity. The coal power stations continue to fail to deliver enough power to meet demand with 2023 being the worst year ever when it comes to daily blackouts - so far over 272 days. Image credit: EskomSePush (ESP)-loadshedding app provides a summary of loadshedding (blackouts) for the last six years.

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  • Due to the increasing demand combined with insufficient generating capacity and the need to manage the emergency reserves, Stage 4 loadshedding will be implemented from 14:00 today until 05:00 on Saturday. 

Unplanned outages slightly increased from 15 386 MW to 15 424MW of generating capacity, while the capacity out of service for planned maintenance increased from 5 617 MW to 6 280MW. Eskom’s load forecast for the evening peak demand is 28 123MW.

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In the last 24 hours, 500MW of generating capacity was taken offline whilst in the same period 600MW were returned to service. Approximately 1 300MW of generating capacity is anticipated to return to service by Tuesday evening.

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Author: Bryan Groenendaal

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