South Africa Eases Power Cuts After Worst Outages in a Year
- Eskom removes 4,000 megawatts from grid to prevent collapse
- Utility on Sunday resorted to 6,000 megawatts of reductions
South Africa’s state electricity utility reduced outages after the recovery of multiple plants that had failed at the weekend, causing the worst power cuts in 12 months.
Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. is implementing Stage 4 power cuts — removing 4,000 megawatts from the grid to prevent its collapse — until further notice, it said in a statement on Monday. On Sunday, it resorted to Stage 6 outages after 10 generation units tripped.