Monday, 25 October 2021: In its state of the system briefing today, Eskom shared with the public its plan to continue with its accelerated maintenance programme during the summer period, the peak maintenance season. Since September, Eskom has increased its planned maintenance programme to an average 5 500MW of capacity. While this is comparable to the amount of maintenance carried out in the period between September 2020 and March 2021, it is almost double the average maintenance carried out in the same period in September 2019 to April 2020.