South Africa’s Eskom Plans Power Cuts After Restart Delay
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South Africa’s state-owned power utility scheduled nationwide rolling blackouts through Thursday because of a delay in restarting generation capacity that was offline for repairs along with additional equipment breakdowns.
Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. will implement so-called stage 2 loadshedding — taking 2,000 megawatts offline to prevent a total collapse of the grid — during peak-use hours starting Tuesday evening, the company said in a statement. The rand weakened after the announcement.