Brace for stage eight power cuts
Things won'nt get better over 12 months, says spokesperson, as energy crisis deepens.
Stage seven and eight load shedding could be on the cards. Consumers are set to bear the brunt of Eskom’s continued melt down, putting more strain on house holds and businesses.
According to Mail & Guardian, the power utility announced it had breakdowns totalling 17800MW of capacity, in addition to planned maintenance of 5 400MW, together taking 23 200MW which translates to 47% of capacity off the grid.
Stage six means 6000MW must be dropped from the grid to avoid a total system shutdown. Eskom has struggled to electricity demand in the country, implementing stage six for the fourth time this year.
The power cuts would leave some users without power for more than 10 hours a day. According to highly placed sources in Eskom’s leadership, M&G reports that, the problems stem from the disunity in the utility’s management, with members of the board and its leadership not seeing eye to eye.
According M&G one source said since Chief Executive Andre de Ruyter was appointed there had been a negative response to implementing his plans to improve the situation in the utility.
“There is a general discomfort with the favour De Ruyter has received from the minister of Public enterprize, Pravin Gordhan and obviously there are many people that are trying to expose that. There is no Understanding on how things are going because De Ruyter showed he was unable to do this job early but he is still here”, the source said. Many have called for De Ruyter to resign as load shedding tears the economy apart, reported M&G on Friday.
