Eskom prepares for outages, says supply fine for now
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Eskom prepares for outages, says supply fine for now UPDATED 07 Jul 2009 | 07:24  
Eskom prepares for outages, says supply fine for now

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's state-owned utility Eskom said on Tuesday it had put emergency plans in place in case several of its generators trip, but said the power supply in the country was fine for now.

Spokesman Andrew Etzinger said Eskom had put up schedules for load shedding -- a term used to describe power outages -- on their website, but said it had no intention of using them now.

"We don't foresee any load shedding, but we can't say never ... for now we are fine," he said.

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