Eskom has urged South Africans to use electricity efficiently to minimise load-shedding during cold weather conditions.
The power utility said on Monday that demand for electricity was projected to increase and the power system was forecast to be tight for this week.
Eskom said their winter plan indicated a higher demand, with three days being extremely tight, with a high risk of load-shedding.
Group chief executive, Phakamani Hadebe said: "while the plan gives us confidence that we may go through winter with no or limited load-shedding."
He said Eskom had mapped out scenarios that show that load-shedding will only be implemented in cases where unplanned breakdowns increase to more than 9 500 MW, delays in returning units from planned maintenance or in cases of unanticipated disruptive events.”
"Eskom was successful in keeping the lights on as a result of improved performance of commercial units which resulted in the unplanned breakdown of around 8500 MW," Radebe said.
- African News Agency (ANA)
