Load-shedding has been suspended over the long weekend, which started on Saturday morning.
‘Due to the sustained improved performance of generation availability as well as the anticipated lower demand over the long weekend, stage 2 load-shedding will be implemented until 5am on Saturday.
‘Thereafter, load-shedding will be suspended over the long weekend and will resume at stage 1 from 5am on Tuesday,” Eskom said in a statement.
Over the long weekend, the power utility will address minor defects on some generating units by performing planned maintenance.
Breakdowns were currently at 14,364MW of generating capacity while the capacity out of service for planned maintenance was 5,731MW on Friday afternoon.