South Africa Blackouts Seen Lasting All Week After Silo Collapse
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Rolling power blackouts will probably continue across South Africa this week as Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. struggles to recover capacity from its second-biggest plant after a coal silo cracked and collapsed, it said.
“It is very likely that load-shedding will continue for the week,” Steve Lennon, the utility’s group executive for sustainability, told reporters today in Johannesburg, using the local term for electricity cuts. Scheduled reductions are most probable over evening peaks and throughout Nov. 6, he said. “If we can avoid any of that then we will.”