💡Eskom to continue stage 4 load shedding until Friday. The ailing parastatal has already spent R10 billion above its diesel budget and continues to face financial difficulty. Eskom loadshedding loadsheddingupdates Catch up on Eskom updates here ⬇️
’s emergency generation reserves were important to cater for any unforeseen breakdowns or unplanned outages at its power stations.
He said Eskom will need roughly R16 billion this year to procure diesel for its open-cycle gas turbines in order to keep the lights on during peak hours.If the power utility had more money available to run its OCGTs, De Ruyter said stage 6 load shedding – which was implemented indefinitely earlier this month – would have been avoided.
“Bear in mind that these plants were never designed to operate as baseload generators and it would be ill-advised to consider them as such. But if we had more money available for diesel, the stages of load shedding would have been reduced,” he said.
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