Power utility Eskom on Wednesday evening confirmed that load-shedding would be suspended from 05:00 on Thursday morning, but warned that there were still significant risks to some generating units, which could force Eskom to implement load-shedding at short notice should it lose further generation capacity.
“We have used the past six days of load-shedding to conduct some repairs to generating units and to continue with the maintenance programme.
“Even though we were able to replenish emergency generation reserves, we have had to continue relying on these to support power system over this period,” the utility noted in a statement.
