Energy expert Chris Yelland said the utility has told him that its emergency open-cycle gas turbines will remain silent until then.
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The state-owned utility will implement stage-5 load shedding from Monday until at least Wednesday, it warned on Sunday.
After plunging South Africa back into intense stage-4 load shedding on Friday, Eskom has now warned of “more erratic” changes.
Widespread breakdowns in Eskom’s generation fleet saw South Africa plunged back into stage-4 load shedding in the early hours of Friday.
South Africa could produce over five million tonnes of green hydrogen a year by 2040, according to a plan it presented at the UN climate summit.
An Eskom contractor at the Camden power station has been arrested for allegedly trying to sabotage the coal-fired power station.
Johannesburg is seeking electricity supply from private generators to reduce the amount of scheduled power outages.
Rhulani Mathebula, Eskom’s acting general executive for generation, has resigned and will leave the state-owned utility at the end of this month.
September 2022 recorded more load shedding than the whole of 2020, the CSIR said on Monday.
Africa’s biggest renewable power company said it will take years for South Africa’s electricity supply woes to ease.