{"id":426654,"date":"2020-08-18T13:48:58","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T11:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=426654"},"modified":"2020-08-18T13:48:58","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T11:48:58","slug":"eskom-stage-2-load-shedding-on-tuesday-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/426654\/eskom-stage-2-load-shedding-on-tuesday-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Eskom stage 2 load shedding on Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom says it will implement Stage 2 load shedding from 16h00 until 22h00 as its power system is severely constrained.<\/p>\n<p>The power utility said that Stage 2 will also again be implemented from 09h00 until 22h00 on Wednesday (19 August).<\/p>\n<p>The group has been hit by generating unit trips over the last few days, where at one stage eight units were offline simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>Six units have since been returned to service, it said, but four units then broke down overnight, and in the early hours of Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>There has also been a delay in returning other units to power, it said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/POWERALERT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#POWERALERT<\/a> 2<\/p>\n<p>Eskom to implement Stage 2 loadshedding from 16:00 until 22:00 as power system is severely<br \/>\nconstrained; Stage 2 will again be implemented from 09:00 until 22:00 tomorrow <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Dl6Aodbghe\">pic.twitter.com\/Dl6Aodbghe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eskom Hld SOC Ltd (@Eskom_SA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Eskom_SA\/status\/1295687488279851009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Check your schedule<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For those living in the major metros, they can check to see when they will be affected:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.citypower.co.za\/customers\/Pages\/Load_Shedding_Downloads.aspx\">City of Johannesburg<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ekurhuleni.gov.za\/residents\/load-shedding-schedules.html\">City of Ekurhuleni\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tshwane.gov.za\/sites\/Departments\/Public-works-and-infrastructure\/Pages\/Load-Shedding.aspx\">City of Tshwane\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/resource.capetown.gov.za\/documentcentre\/Documents\/Procedures%2C%20guidelines%20and%20regulations\/Load_Shedding_All_Areas_Schedule_and_Map.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">City of Cape Town (PDF)<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nelsonmandelabay.gov.za\/page\/loadshedding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nelson Mandela Bay<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.durban.gov.za\/City_Services\/electricity\/Load_Shedding\/Pages\/default.aspx\">eThekwini<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.centlec.co.za\/Pages\/Page\/Loadshedding\">Manguang<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buffalocity.gov.za\/notice.php?id=4JVjjqq9G\">Buffalo City<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For access to other load shedding schedules, Eskom has made them available on\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/loadshedding.eskom.co.za\/\">loadshedding.eskom.co.za.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/426608\/eskom-warns-of-load-shedding-as-cold-front-hits-south-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eskom warns of load shedding as cold front hits South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom says it will implement Stage 2 load shedding from 16h00 until 22h00 as its power system is severely constrained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":301154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-426654","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\/426654","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=426654"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426664,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426654\/revisions\/426664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}