South African load shedding to continue indefinitely: Eskom

摘要

London—Countrywide power cuts across South Africa due to a broken nuclear plant pump are set to continue, with no end date in sight, Eskom said Thursday as market participants expect a switch in buying activity away from South Africa origin coal. South Africa’s largest utility and producer of more than 90% of the electricity in the country, Eskom increased its power outages to Stage 4, which allows up to 4,000 MW of load to be shed, after a problem with a pump at the Koeberg plant in Cape Town, South Africa’s only nuclear station. The company’s generation portfolio has a nominal capacity of 44,000 MW.