Load shedding: What we know about the state of the electricity system so far
South Africans will know more about the current status of the country’s electricity supply on Wednesday, when Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan and Eskom board chair Jabu Mabuza address media at a power station 90 minutes outside of Johannesburg.
The department of public enterprises, under which Eskom falls, has not disclosed the name of the power station “for security reasons”.
Eskom stopped implementing load shedding on March 24, after the stability of the power grid was restored following a series of unplanned breakdowns of generating units and a cyclone in Mozambique. But even then, the power utility warned that rotational power cuts could not be ruled out entirely.
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