Loadshedding has been suspended at 5 am on Wednesday, 26 February 2025. Eskom announced last night that it follows the recovery of the generation capacity and the replenishment of emergency reserves.

Loadshedding has been suspended at 5 am

The Power Utility’s Group Chief Executive, Dan Marokane says there will be valuable lessons to be learned from the set of multiple unit trips that were recently announced. He says the trips were unconnected and purely technical and that it related to electrical and control system issues within auxiliary parts of our power stations.

Marokane added, “We maintain our guidance that loadshedding is largely behind us due to structural improvements in the generation fleet.”

At the same time, Eskom’s Group Executive for Generation, Bheki Nxumalo has expressed their commitment to maintaining high levels of maintenance. He says the results clearly show that their efforts have delivered a 99% electricity availability rate over Eskom’s current financial year. This is for the period from 1 April 2024 to 21 February 2025. He says there was a saving of R17 billion in diesel costs.

Valuable lessons to be learned

Nxumalo says that ongoing planned maintenance stands at 6 660MW. He says this is in alignment with their summer period maintenance strategy. He says this strategy is at increased levels to prepare for winter and meet license and regulatory requirements.”

“Our focus remains on eliminating loadshedding as a structural constraint on the economy,” Marokane added.

He concluded by saying that they’re reaffirming their commitment to ensuring that South Africa will not return to the severe levels of loadshedding experienced in 2023.

READ MORE: Previous loadshedding stages

Summer Outlook Remains Unchanged

Eskom’s Summer Outlook, published on 26 August 2024, remains in effect.