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Cape Town - Eskom announced on Thursday that it will implement stage 2 load shedding from 4pm to 10pm.
Plan for load shedding: Gridwatch
"The power system is currently severely constrained due to a shortage of generating capacity as several units are currently out of service for scheduled maintenance and others due to technical faults.
"Eskom technicians are working hard to return these units back to service as soon as possible.
"In addition to the units that are currently offline due to technical faults and planned maintenance, the situation was this morning exacerbated by a loss of 1 200 MW of electricity imported from Mozambique due to technical faults at the Cahora Bassa hydroelectric power station. This is in addition to the initial 300MW lost yesterday at the same power station," Eskom said in a statement.
Earlier on Thursday Eskom announced that it implemented stage 1 load shedding and that it was set to continue from 09:35 until 22:00 in the evening.
