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Eskom starts the week with loadshedding Stage 1

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26th January 2015

By now most South Africans assume that loadshedding is here to stay. While Eskom hasn’t explicitly said that it would be loadshedding this week, many electricity users fell into Stage 1 shedding this morning.

Due to the electricity demand that has exceeded the supply; Eskom implemented load shedding Stage 1 from 11h00 until 22h00 tonight.

— Eskom Hld SOC Ltd (@Eskom_SA) January 26, 2015

On a number of occasions the energy producer said that loadshedding won’t be coming into play as long as systems hold up – but it is unclear what exactly caused the nationwide outage. According to various reports on social media, it seems as though Eskom took a bullet for the country and loadshed its own Megawatt Park headquarters in Johannesburg.

During a previous media briefing, Eskom highlighted which days of the coming months were more susceptible to loadshedding.

[Image – CC by 2.0/Lauren Rushing]

Eskom loadshedding

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