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Power utility Eskom has announced that load shedding will be pushed to stage 4 on Sunday afternoon – with more load shedding planned for the entire week.
Load shedding will be at stage 4 from 12h00 on Sunday to 05h00 on Monday (24 October), and will continue at various stages for the rest of the week.
Here’s the schedule:
Sunday, 23 October
- Stage 4 – 12h00 to 00h00
Monday, 24 October
- Stage 4 – 00h00 to 05h00
- Stage 3 – 05h00 to 16h00
- Stage 4 – 16h00 to 00h00
Tuesday, 25 October
- Stage 4 – 00h00 to 05h00
- Stage 3 – 05h00 to 16h00
- Stage 4 – 16h00 to 00h00
Wednesday, 26 October
- Stage 4 – 00h00 to 05h00
- Stage 3 – 05h00 to 16h00
- Stage 4 – 16h00 to 00h00
Thursday, 27 October (provisional)
- Stage 4 – 00h00 to 05h00
- Stage 3 – 05h00 to 00h00
Friday, 28 October (provisional)
- Stage 3 – 00h00 to 05h00
- Stage 2 – 00h500 to 00h00
The schedules for Thursday and Friday are provisional and a better picture will be presented later in the week.
Eskom said that its emergency generation reserves are almost depleted – both the diesel and pumped storage dam levels.
“The higher load shedding stages are required to help build up the emergency generation reserves during the week,” it said.
During the weekend, the breakdown of a generating unit each at Duvha, Kriel and Medupi power stations, as well as the delayed returns of a generating unit each at Camden, Kusile, Komati, and Kendal power stations have exacerbated current generation capacity shortages, forcing the escalation of load shedding.
Eskom teams have returned a generating unit each at Grootvlei, Hendrina, Majuba, Matla and Tutuka power stations to service.
The group currently has 6,004MW on planned maintenance, while another 14,961MW of capacity is unavailable due to breakdowns.
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.
Read: Some South Africans get an extra hour of load shedding – here’s why