Eskom to suspend pregnancy spill

State utility Eskom will suspend the load of load from 05:00 Wednesday morning, February 26, 2025.

Made the announcement through Facebook Around 22:00 Tuesday evening, bringing relief to the South -Africans who endured four days of energy reductions.

Eskom suspends pregnancy spill

“This decision follows the successful recovery of the generation capacity and the significant progress in the restoration of emergency reserves. Although a renewal is still necessary overnight, these developments will result in a stable power system, ”said Eskom.

“The continuous planned maintenance is 6.660MW, in alignment with our strategy of maintenance of the summer period. This increased maintenance level is necessary to prepare for the winter to further improve the reliability and to meet the license and regulatory requirements. “

Subsequent communication will follow on Friday, February 28, 2025 “or as soon as any significant changes appear,” he added.

Utility implemented Stage 3 Pregnancy spill Shortly Saturday before he climbed him Stage 6 Overnight between Saturdays and Sundays. This followed the breakdown at the Camden, Majuba and Medupi power plants, reducing almost 3,900mw of the network capacity.

In addition, an aggressive planned maintenance program, along with the need to restore emergency reserves, has left a header for Eskom to avoid severe power reduction.

Fortunately, recovery was fast. Eskom managed to reduce months of loading at stage 4 at 00:30, before further reducing it to stage 2 at 05:00 on Tuesday.

This is the second time in three weeks, Eskom has implemented energy reductions after maintaining lights for more than 10 months. The first time was on the first weekend of February with the executive director Dan Marokane Describing it at that time as “a temporary potential delay”.

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