Load shedding: Stage 4 is back

As Eskom continues to struggle with keeping the lights on.

Eskom, South Africa’s embattled state-owned power utility, announced a third consecutive week of rolling blackouts on Monday due to generation capacity shortages and after Zambia’s power generation decreased on the weekend, impacting the Southern African Power Pool.

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Read: Eskom implements Stage 4 load shedding

Eskom will now ramp up the outages from 1pm Monday until 5am on Friday, cutting 4 000 megawatts of instead of the originally planned 2 000 megawatts, the utility said in a statement released via Twitter.

Eskom has enforced countrywide power cuts for nine out of the 11 months of this year.

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