As the country continues to showered with persistent rainfall, Eskom said it is dealing with a number of electricity interruption.
The devastating weather has had a severe impact on electricity infrastructure leaving many areas in the dark.
Outages
Eskom said parts of the Eastern Cape has also been affected by the inclement weather.
“Eskom is currently attending to electricity supply interruptions in parts of Amathole, Chris Hani and OR Tambo districts in the Eastern Cape. The interruptions are due to stormy weather conditions.”
“Eskom technicians are out on various sites working hard to restore electricity supply. All direct Eskom customers who are without electricity are urged to be patient and continue to treat electricity appliances as live for safety purposes until electricity is restored,” the ailing parastatal said.
The state-owned entity said it is also responding to calls in other areas.
“Attempts to restore supply to Kagiso, Lusaka and Tshepisong are hindered by the heavy rains. Efforts are being made to find a solution that will ensure the restoration of supply to the affected communities.”
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City Power
Regional power utility City Power has also been battling to restore electricity to affected areas that have succumbed to the severe rains.
On Tuesday, City Power said it was responding to nearly 5 000 outage calls from customers across the City of Johannesburg.
Load shedding
Meanwhile, the country has not seen a reprieve from load shedding as the deliberate power cuts stubbornly continues to remain on the stage 5 mark for almost a week.
Eskom has provided no indication when stage five would be downgrade to a lower stage.
Electricity demand
A tweet from Eskom spokesperson Sikonathi Mantshantsha shows that there is still high loss of generation capacity.
- Evening Peak Feedback
- Total demand: 28 107MW
- Load shedding: 4 657MW
- Virtual Power Station: 264MW
- Renewable Generation: 1 685MW (Wind 1 393MW, CSP 292MW)
- Available Generation Capacity: 26 247MW
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