City Of Johannesburg Asks For Load-Shedding Exemption

The City of Johannesburg has asked for a three-day exemption from Eskom's rolling blackouts in order to deal with the fallout from torrential rains in Gauteng.

• "Given the urgent need for City Power to attend to the widespread and escalating faults, the entity has expressed its concern that load shedding is not only causing additional faults and stress on the network but also preventing the entity from being able to effectively attend to the outages and to stabilise the situation," an Environment and Infrastructure Services MMC official said according to News24.
• Eskom had earlier ditched its plan to de-escalate load-shedding from today and noted that it is "experiencing high volumes of outages due to prevailing storms" and "repairs will take longer than usual due to access problems." The electricity utility has also taken Unit 1 of the Koeberg nuclear-power plant off the grid after earlier delays.