Eskom anticipates Stage 2 load shedding during winter
Eskom anticipates that load shedding will likely be “maintained within Stage 2” this winter period. Group Chief Executive Dan Marokane, addressed media on Friday, of the State of the System and Winter Outlook. PICTURE: Pixabay He said the forecast was made on the anticipation of the Unplanned Capacity Loss Factor (UCLF) reaching 14 000MW during winter – down from the anticipated 15 000MW during the same period last year. The UCLF is the rate at which generating units breakdown and do not perform optimally. “For winter 2024… the likely scenario from our assumptions is that load shedding will be maintained within Stage 2 at most. In the extreme case where the unreliability increases, that component may go occasionally [to] Stage 5 but we really think that on the basis of what we see, the performance of the fleet, load shedding will stay within Stage 2. “This is on the back of the decrease of the backline unreliability capacity reduction of 1 000MW which is what we use for our base
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