The country never even got to experience the relief they were promised from load shedding on New Year’s Eve as the power utility has announced that yesterday’s announcement of a suspension of load shedding should be disregarded.
Eskom attributed their failure to deliver on their promise of uninterrupted electricity to “the breakdown of five generating units since yesterday afternoon.”
“It is no longer possible to suspend load shedding at 16:00 today as previously communicated. Stage 2 load shedding will therefore continue until further notice,” said Eskom in a statement.
Prior to this, load shedding was supposed to be suspended from 4 pm on Saturday until 5 am on Monday. Thereafter, the country was supposed to resume load shedding on a stage 2 schedule.
