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You will be loadshed over the long weekend

What can we say about loadshedding? It has become an everyday occurrence now with South Africans being subjected to outages for 12 days in a row so far.

While the prognosis for today doesn’t seem to differ much from the last couple of days, power users should get ready for loadshedding over the long weekend – although it should only be set to Stage 1.

Power producer Eskom released its System Status Bulletin yesterday, giving users a better view of what is going on in terms of electricity supply.

The company mentions that today and tomorrow’s peak demand should be met with enough generating capacity, but problem could starts to arise on Sunday and Monday.

“Sunday (26 April): The capacity available to meet that evening’s peak demand is 28 582 MW (including open cycle gas turbines) while demand is forecast at 29 169 MW. Monday (27 April): The capacity available to meet that evening’s peak demand is 28 426 MW (including open cycle gas turbines) while demand is forecast at 30 564 MW,” it said in its bulletin.

It did however say that these are estimates and will likely differ from the actual figures.

The rest of next week beyond Monday doesn’t look any better, as Eskom predicts that demand will outstrip capacity until about Thursday.

Eskom

[Image – CC by 3.0/David Shankbone]

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