Last night the company terminated load shedding at 10pm following a six-hour long series of load shedding. This morning, the public electricity entity’s twitter handle, @Eskom_SA tweeted, “The load shedding prognosis for today remains high and is dependent on the performance of the power plant.” Meanwhile the company’s spokesperson Khulu Phasiwe also warned that the power grid would remain constrained for the rest of the week.

“The electricity supply system remains very vulnerable for the rest of the week due to a shortage of generation capacity as several units are currently out of service due to planned and unplanned outages.” Phasiwe said any unforeseen incident in the power system could trigger the implementation of load shedding. He apologised for the inconvenience to affected customers and acknowledged all electricity users for responding to Eskom’s messages to save electricity by switching off non-essential appliances . “Every little bit of saving counts in minimising the severity of load shedding,” he said

Phasiwe said Eskom would like to assure customers that load shedding is a necessary measure to protect the power system.