Load shedding eased for the week ahead – here’s the schedule
Power utility Eskom says that it has managed to replenish emergency reserves, so it is able to ease load shedding to stage 2 for the rest of the weekend and into the new week.
The group had initially planned on escalating outages to stage 3 in the evening, but stage 2 will continue until 16h00 on Monday, the group said.
Thereafter, stage 3 load shedding will be implemented, and a stage 2/stage 3 rotation will be in effect until further notice.
The schedule is as follows:
Sunday, 25 Febraury
- Stage 2: until 00h00
Monday, 26 February
- Stage 2: 00h00 to 16h00
- Stage 3: 16h00 to 00h00
Tuesday, 27 February
- Stage 3: 00h00 to 05h00
- Stage 2: 05h00 to 16h00
- Stage 3: 16h00 to 00h00
Wednesday, 28 February
- Stage 3: 00h00 to 05h00
- Stage 2: 05h00 to 16h00
- Stage 3: 16h00 to 00h00
Eskom said that it expects a total of 4,170MW of generation capacity to be returned by the middle of the week – with any further changes to be communicated if needed.
Schedules
For people living in the major metros, load shedding schedules are available here:
- City of Johannesburg
- City of Ekurhuleni
- City of Tshwane
- City of Cape Town (PDF)
- Nelson Mandela Bay
- eThekwini
- Manguang
- Buffalo City
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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