Unplanned outages rose to 5‚500 Megawatts (MW)
on August 27 from 5‚043MW on August 23 and 3‚200MW on August 14‚ Eskom
said in its 66th system status bulletin.
Planned maintenance on August 27
was 2‚249MW from the lowest level this year of 845MW on July 30‚ so
available capacity (including open cycle gas turbines) was only 34‚300MW
compared with peak demand of 32‚493MW.
Peak evening demand is expected to
ease this week from 34‚741MW on August 13 to 31‚954MW on Tuesday‚
31‚801MW on Wednesday and 31‚718MW on Thursday as SA gradually warms up
from its recent cold spell.
On August 7 Gauteng experienced its first widespread snowfalls since September 1981.
The highest actual peak demand of 35‚527MW took place on August 7.
Source: Business Report
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