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Dark weekend ahead?
19/01/2008 11:17 - (SA)
Johannesburg - Power utility Eskom said that load shedding had continued from Friday morning until after evening peak and has warned that the prognosis showed a high possibility of load shedding over the weekend.
According to the national supplier, the electricity system was "extremely tight" and the pattern of load shedding is likely to remain until Thursday.
The utility said it was working with municipalities and regional disaster management committees in a bid to coordinate load-shedding schedules and manning of traffic lights during load shedding.
"We hope this will assist in minimising the inconvenience caused on the roads and improve our forewarning to electricity consumers.
"We are also taking into account suggestions from consumers in relation to our communication with consumers. Where municipalities don't have capacity to do their own load-shedding, they request Eskom to do the switching," Eskom said.
Eskom also said that the planned shut down of Koeberg's Unit 2 on Monday has been factored into the load shedding schedule, and is not expected to worsen the situation. - I-Net Bridge and News24
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