Significats de unplanned outages en anglès

On 18 November, further unplanned outages caused the power to go into shutdown.

The drop in annual output came as major smelters suffered unplanned outages from August.

Refiners perform maintenance to keep units operating reliably and safely, protecting themselves from costly unplanned outages.

The meeting with labour reported on the problems with Eskom's operations and generation system, maintenance and unplanned outages.

The report found 58 percent of unplanned outages from deteriorated assets were from lines, poles and cross arms.

However, there are still a high number of unplanned outages that create a disruptive effect on the overall system.

This year, the country has been subjected to several rounds of power cuts due to unplanned outages at Eskom's power stations.

Eskom, South Africa's power supplier, is experiencing a rise in unplanned outages which are threatening the return of widespread load shedding.

As previously indicated, our aim is to keep unplanned outages below 9 500MW, said the statement.

Eskom Spokesperson Khulu Phasiwesaid: Stage 1 load shedding has been put in place for Thursday, due to a number of unplanned outages.

NOTICE: Eskom has had to implement stage 1 loadshedding from 12:15 to 22:00 due to high unplanned outages.

The amount of electricity off the grid -due to planned and unplanned outages -has dropped significantly since the start of the month.

First production of the supercooled fuel from Gorgon began in March last year, but the plant has been plagued by numerous unplanned outages since then.

More than 17 000 MW of power has been taken offline, as planned and unplanned outages continue to spiral at Eskom.

As of 17:50 on Tuesday afternoon, unplanned outages were at 12 046 MW and planned outages stay at 6 155 MW.

The power utility explained that in order to reach a "safe zone", unplanned outages need to be below 9 500MW.