Stage 15 load shedding

2022 - 9 - 28

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Eskom clarifies stage 15 load shedding warning for South Africa (BusinessTech)

Power utility Eskom has moved to clear up confusion around group CEO Andre de Ruyter's warning of stage 15 load shedding in South Africa.

Eskom said it is in the process of appealing the decision. “A national blackout will have massive implications, and every effort is made to prevent this from occurring. The chief executive was explaining the consequences to South Africa’s power grid if Eskom were to be forced to comply with minimum emissions standards, adding that on top of having to pull 16,000MW of power from the grid – equivalent to 15 stages of load shedding – 100,000 jobs would be lost.

De Ruyter clarifies Stage 15 report: 'Clickbait engineered by a ... (Eyewitness News)

'It's been a rough ride.' Eskom CEO André de Ruyter puts his reference to Stage 15 power cuts into context and gives an update on the state of the national ...

That's added a much-needed 920 megawatts to the grid, which should alleviate some of the pressure...André de Ruyter, Group CEO - Eskom Hopefully by the weekend - if we don't have any further issues - we should be able to emerge from load shedding." That's one of those incidents where you really wish that this could have been avoided.André de Ruyter, Group CEO - Eskom "We will then drop to Stage 3 load shedding and then the outlook is that during the course of next week we should be able to drop to Stage 2... ...but generally speaking, we've seen a quite poor performance from some of our key units, exacerbated of course by the fact that we have taken out about 5 800MW on planned maintenance which in the past we did not do and we are today of course paying the price for that.André de Ruyter, Group CEO - Eskom What I said was that if we were forced to implement the minimum emission standards that would require us to shut down 16 gigawatts of generation capacity, that would put us into Stage 15 load shedding.André de Ruyter, Group CEO - Eskom The implication obviously is that I don't think there's a very good idea and that there are very good alternatives to implementing compliance with the minimum emission standards, and that would allow us to redirect the R300 billion that it would cost us to comply to rather build new generation capacity that does not pollute the air.André de Ruyter, Group CEO - Eskom De Ruyter emphasises that a journalist took this comment "completely out of context" and "no doubt, got lots of clicks". Bruce Whitfield asks de Ruyter to clarify the reports of looming Stage 15 power cuts - "I don't know if we can bear it". 'It's been a rough ride.' Eskom CEO André de Ruyter puts his reference to Stage 15 power cuts into context and gives an update on the state of the national grid. "This was a bit of mischievous clickbait engineered by a journalist" is the Eskom CEO's response. - The Eskom CEO clarifies his comment on The Money Show and tells us what we can expect from the power grid in the coming week

What happens at stage 15 Eskom load shedding? (Memeburn)

Stage 15 load shedding, means your car will be trapped behind that remote-operated heavy garage door with that backup power system under severe constraints ...

While De Ruyter may not know what Stage 15 would look like, should the power utility not find a plan b for the country’s grid supply, Stage 15 may fast become a dreaded reality. The country would be without power for weeks, since Stage 4 means 12 outages each lasting two hours over a period of four days. De Ruyter allegedly mentioned how a Stage 15 would result in major job losses while current coal power stations did not meet the minimum emissions standards.

Stage 15 load shedding a possibility - Eskom CEO André de Ruyter (Jacaranda FM)

In a presentation during the Africa Renewables Investment Summit in Cape Town Eskom CEO André de Ruyter warned of possible stage 15 load shedding.

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Eskom risks unprecedented load shedding if it meets air quality ... (News24)

It will cost Eskom about R300 billion to make its existing coal-fired stations compliant with air quality requirements, the alternative of decommissioning ...

Load shedding could reach up stage 15 Eskom CEO warns (CapeTown ETC)

Addressing the Africa Renewables Investment Summit (ARIS), underway here in Cape Town Eskom's CEO André de Ruyter warned that power cuts can get worse than ...