President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday moved to deal with the electricity supply crisis harming the South African economy by lifting the limit on self-generation of power to 100MW.
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The president has encouraged mobile operators, Icasa and the department of communications to engage in mediation to get South Africa’s spectrum auction back on track.
Eskom was forced to implement stage-4 load shedding at short notice on Wednesday, despite having cut the level of planned maintenance at its power stations to just 1.3GW.
Eskom has implemented stage-3 load shedding due to further breakdowns at the Kusile, Matla and Tutuka power stations.
Eskom is escalating load shedding to stage 4 on Wednesday, meaning it is cutting 4GW of supply from the grid, as it struggles with plant breakdowns.
Eskom has plunged South Africa back into stage-2 load shedding, with the rolling national blackouts set to continue until Sunday night.
Rolling power cuts are likely to continue all week as Eskom struggles to bring generating units back online, the state-owned power utility said on Monday.
Eskom said it will suspend load shedding for five hours on Friday afternoon to allow MPs to attend a virtual sitting of parliament. As a result, power cuts will continue all weekend.
While implementing countrywide blackouts this week, energy regulator Nersa has published for comment Eskom’s latest submission for additional revenue to be recovered from electricity tariffs.
South Africa is seeking additional electricity from private contractors as government moves to address longstanding power outages.