This article discusses why voltage as well as frequency load shedding may be necessary to prevent major system blackouts. It is the first of two articles on the important subjects of power system ...

South Africans are anticipating a dark and cold winter after Eskom announced load shedding at short notice on Wednesday. The power utility faced the loss of five generation units before the peak ...

As quickly as it commenced, Eskom’s latest bout of load shedding has been suspended until further notice. South Africans, however, are still advised to use electricity wisely and sparingly.

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Eskom has once again implemented load shedding, this time at a less-severe level 2. It has again blamed the loss of generating units for the latest outages. “While we have made notable progress in our ...

The company further confirmed that the persistent load-shedding is a direct result of reduced power allocation from the Transmission Company of Nigeria, their primary partner in power distribution.

Eskom has announced that Stage 3 load shedding will be suspended from 10am on Sunday. The parastatal implemented Stage 3 load shedding from 2pm on Friday. The power cuts were expected to continue ...

Eskom has suspended load shedding one day early, with the state-owned entity seeing a recovery of generation capacity and the replenishment of sufficient emergency reserves. Eskom implemented ...

South Africans were plunged into stage three load shedding on Friday afternoon. The power utility said in the past 44 hours, coal operations at Kusile power station were at optimal levels ...

Eskom says it will suspend load-shedding at 10:00 on Sunday due to the recovery of more than 3,000MW of generation capacity and replenishment of emergency reserves. It added that it aims to ...

“After the recovery of more than 3,000 MW of generation capacity and replenishment of sufficient emergency reserves in the past 44 hours, load shedding will be suspended today (Sunday) at 10am ...

Eskom’s unplanned capacity loss factor rose from 15,000MW earlier in the week to 18,000MW on Friday, forcing the utility to implement Stage 3 load-shedding over the weekend. This was announced ...