If you’ve been monitoring your loadshedding schedule, and setting your alarm hours in advance to wake up on time to prepare breakfast in the morning, Eskom has come through with news that’ll have you breathing a sigh of relief.
According to the power utility, loadshedding has been suspended from 9pm tonight “due to sufficient recovery in generation capacity.”
Meanwhile, Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis said that the City of Cape Town will have to take matters into their own hands if they wish to halt the damage caused by Eskom’s “monopoly over generation”.
In the next two weeks, the City will publish documents detailing its upcoming procurement of power from independent power producers (IPPs).
“The only way for us to provide reliable and affordable electricity to our residents is to source it from elsewhere,” says Hill-Lewis.
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