South Africa faces highest level power cuts as generation units fail

South Africa’s Eskom implemented its highest stage of controlled power cuts, Stage 6, early on Sunday, the power utility said in a statement after multiple units at Camden power station tripped.

On Saturday Eskom applied Stage 3 power cuts, effectively cutting 3,000 megawatts to the national grid.

Regular breakdowns at Eskom’s fleet of ageing coal-fired plants, providing the bulk of electricity in Africa’s most industrialised economy, are often the cause of loadshedding – an incremental system where stage 1 sees 1,000 MW cut from the system, with stage 6 the highest implemented to date.


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