{"id":288656,"date":"2018-12-02T07:06:14","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T05:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=288656"},"modified":"2018-12-02T07:24:21","modified_gmt":"2018-12-02T05:24:21","slug":"south-africa-facing-years-of-load-shedding-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/288656\/south-africa-facing-years-of-load-shedding-report\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa facing years of load shedding: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Energy experts have warned that South Africa could be in the dark for several years as Eskom battles coal shortages and high maintenance costs.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/sunday-times\/news\/2018-12-02-sa-faces-years-of-gloom-as-eskom-trips\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sunday Times<\/a> <\/strong>the power utility has promised that load shedding will subside by March 2019.<\/p>\n<p>However, energy experts have indicated that Eskom\u2019s load shedding and financial problems could drag the country into a &#8216;death spiral&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>A report seen by the paper states that coal shortages\u00a0will continue until 2025, with\u00a0close to 80% of Eskom power generation currently relying on coal.<\/p>\n<p>The power utility is also expected\u00a0to spend billions of rands on maintenance in 2019 and beyond, as parts of the power system face efficiency issues and even total collapse.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stage 2 load shedding\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eskom announced on Saturday (1 December), that it has been forced to implement stage 2 load shedding because of continued pressure on the national grid.<\/p>\n<p>Stage 2 calls for 2,000MW to rotationally load shed nationally at a given period.<\/p>\n<p>Load shedding is conducted rotationally as a measure of last resort to protect the power system from a total collapse or blackout.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For South Africans, that means a return to stocking up on candles, mopping up thawed refrigerators and sitting in gridlocked roads around blank traffic lights,&#8221; Bloomberg reported.<\/p>\n<p>The group also\u00a0advised that stage 2 load shedding would be implemented from 08h00 to 22h00 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/288644\/eskom-moves-to-stage-2-load-shedding-heres-how-it-will-impact-you\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eskom moves to stage 2 load shedding: here\u2019s how it will impact you<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Energy experts have warned that South Africa could be in the dark for several years as Eskom battles coal shortages and high maintenance costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":77849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-288656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288656"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288676,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288656\/revisions\/288676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}