This is reportedly due to an unanticipated conveyor belt failure at Medupi Power Station resulting in the system being “severely constrained and vulnerable”.
Eskom says its teams continue to work tirelessly to return units back from planned and unplanned outages and vow to give citizens regular updates during the course of the day, as well as asking South Africans to reduce demand as a “concerted collective effort can help to avoid or reduce the level of load shedding”.
#POWERALERT 2
Date: 04 January 2020Eskom to implement Stage 2 loadshedding from 22:00 tonight until 08:00 on Sunday @SABCNewsOnline @IOL @eNCA @ewnupdates @CityPowerJhb @City_Ekurhuleni @CityTshwane @eThekwiniM @News24 @TheCitizen_News @GovernmentZA pic.twitter.com/HdJngew2h0
— Eskom Hld SOC Ltd (@Eskom_SA) January 4, 2020
