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Load-shedding to be suspended tonight as units return to service

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19th November 2021

By: News24Wire

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Eskom says load-shedding will be suspended from 21:00 on Friday as seven generation units have returned to service.

A unit each at Kendal, Camden and Grootvlei power stations as well as two units each at Majuba and Matimba power stations have returned to service.

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Overnight, two units at Majuba Power Station tripped and a further unit was shut down for emergency repairs.

Furthermore, a unit each at Grootvlei and Tutuka power stations tripped. Of the five units, two units have since returned to service.  

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Total breakdowns currently amount to 14 960 MW while planned maintenance is 3 345 MW of capacity.

South Africa was hit by a renewed bout of load-shedding this week due to more power station outages, with Eskom now investigating the possibility of sabotage in some of the breakdowns.  

Earlier this week, a team that had been working on the cooler fans at Matimba dropped an extension cord on to the transformer of the station’s unit 2.

A "flash" resulted, which tripped the station board and shut down all cooling to units 1, 2 and 3.

"We have difficulty in believing this is entirely coincidental," Eskom CEO André de Ruyter said in a briefing on Thursday.

Then, a pylon collapsed without warning near the Lethabo power station in Vereeniging on Wednesday - which according to senior Eskom sources, the clearest indication yet of a deliberate campaign to sabotage the country's electricity supply.

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