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Residents and businesses will possibly have to contend with rolling power cuts for the rest of the week.

Eskom suspends load shedding until 5 pm today The utility said it returned seven generating units to service, which helped ease supply constraints. FILE: Eskom said the outlook for the rest of the week was expected to improve as its teams worked to bring more units online, however, it warned the system remained vulnerable and there were no guarantees. Picture: Pexels. The utility said it returned seven generating units to service, which helped ease supply constraints. The country was saddled with stage two...

Eskom move loadshedding schedule back to level two Updated Newswatch Source: Pixabay The Power Utility downgraded their alert level to stage one yesterday but say a severe loss of generation power left them with no choice.  Stage two will be implemented until Saturday at 5am. There’s been a further loss of generating capacity at the Medupi, Arnot, Duvha and Kendal power stations. Eskom says they have seen an increase in demand, which has put a further strain on the emergency generation reserves today.   “The contributing factors for the losses are boiler tube leaks and units tripping,...

Eskom ramped up the rolling blackouts from stage 1 to stage 2 at 5 am, saying there was a delay in returning generation units to service.

The power utility said its systems remained constrained and vulnerable.