Its been an exciting bright weekend for most of us who have enjoyed much electricity but Eskom posted a twit on their Desk twitter account this morning of a plan to resume load shedding due to constraint on the grid.
Load shedding Stage 1 is to be implemented from 10:00 until 22h00 today. We urge all electricity customers to reduce their energy usage
— Eskom Media Desk (@Eskom_MediaDesk) February 3, 2015
According to Eskom media desk, The pre-planned load shedding was due to Unit 1 of Koeberg power station that was out of service due to a technical fault on the main generator transformer. It was reported that the power station would be fully operational by the end of the week, which will increase capacity going into the weekend. However, around 10:00 am today, the Media Desk posted that the planned blackout was cancelled due to reduced demand in electricity usage :
Eskom will not load shed at 10am today as the electricity demand has decreased significantly since the early warning notification was made — Eskom Media Desk (@Eskom_MediaDesk) February 3, 2015
Eskom would like to thank customers who heeded the call to reduce electricity usage, we urge customers to continue to use energy sparingly
— Eskom Media Desk (@Eskom_MediaDesk) February 3, 2015
Eskom commented and warned that the system will remain under pressure for the rest of the week. Eskom also commented that any extra load or faults in the system may necessitate the need to go into load shedding. It is no suprise that Eskom’s plans to curb blackout today has failed and load shedding resumes, when a twit sufaced on the media desk confirming load shedding resumption :
#PowerAlert: The power system remains constrained and stage 1 #loadshedding will be implemented from 17h00 to 22h00 tonight. — Eskom Hld SOC Ltd (@Eskom_SA) February 3, 2015
Municipalities have urged South Africans to use electricity sparingly by switching off geysers and pool pumps; non-essential lights, efficient use of air-conditioners by keeping the room temperature at 23⁰C, and responding to the alerts on TV .
In more details we wrote about the different stages of the load shedding phase in our Eskom’s load shedding starts article.
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