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National power utility Eskom has announced it will implement Stage 2 load shedding from Monday (10 October) until Wednesday (12 October).
Eskom said that load shedding would take effect between 16h00 and 00h00. The company stressed that it would attempt to limit load shedding to only night-time to best suit the country’s economy and people.
“The load shedding will be used to replenish emergency generation reserves during the night to bolster generation capacity. Eskom will publish a further update on Wednesday afternoon or as soon as any significant changes occur,” said Eskom.
Eskom said that since the start of the weekend (8 October), multiple generation units had come back online; however, a unit at each Kendal and Kusile power station were taken off for repairs.
“We currently have 5,487MW on planned maintenance, while another 14,061MW of capacity is unavailable due to breakdowns.”
This follows the group saying that it would suspend load shedding for the weekend period from 05:00 on Saturday morning (8 October) in the wake of lower anticipated demand as well as adequate levels of emergency generation reserves.
The power utility stated prior to the temporary suspension: “While the generation capacity constraints persist, the suspension of load-shedding is possible due to the anticipated lower weekend demand, as well as adequate levels of emergency generation reserves.”
Schedules
For people living in the major metros, load shedding schedules are available here:
For access to other load shedding schedules, Eskom has made them available on loadshedding.eskom.co.za.
Smartphone users can also download the app EskomSePush to receive push notifications when load shedding is implemented, as well as the times the area you are in will be off.
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