{"id":497035,"date":"2021-06-09T07:11:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T05:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=497035"},"modified":"2021-06-09T07:11:37","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T05:11:37","slug":"stage-2-load-shedding-from-wednesday-until-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/497035\/stage-2-load-shedding-from-wednesday-until-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Stage 2 load shedding from Wednesday until Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom has announced that stage 2 load shedding will be implemented from 10h00 on Wednesday (9 June) until 22h00 on Sunday night (13 June).<\/p>\n<p>The embattled power utility said that the power cuts are due to continued delays in returning generation units to service at Kusile, Tutuka, Duvha, Kendal and Koeberg power stations<\/p>\n<p>These constraints have been exacerbated by the high winter demand throughout the day over the past few days as brought about by the colder temperatures, it said.<\/p>\n<p>Breakdowns currently stand at 13,752MW of capacity, while a further 1,273MW was out due to planned maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>While this is a significant recovery from the 15,498MW in unexpected breakdowns experienced late yesterday afternoon, Eskom\u2019s emergency generation reserves now need to be replenished after being used extensively in the past days to avoid load-shedding during the day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is therefore necessary to implement load-shedding continuously in order to replenish the emergency reserves,&#8221; Eskom said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/POWERALERT1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#POWERALERT1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stage 2 loadshedding will be implemented from 10:00 this morning until 22:00 on Sunday<br \/>\nnight due to delays in returning generating units <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aeS1oqVKl4\">pic.twitter.com\/aeS1oqVKl4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eskom Hld SOC Ltd (@Eskom_SA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Eskom_SA\/status\/1402464235490324481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 9, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>For those living in the major metros, the load shedding schedules are available here:<\/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<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/496325\/load-shedding-in-south-africa-could-hit-stage-4-or-5-soon-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Load shedding could hit stage 4 soon: report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom has announced that stage 2 load shedding will be implemented from 10h00 on Wednesday (9 June) until 22h00 on Sunday night (13 June).<\/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-497035","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\/497035","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=497035"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":497051,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497035\/revisions\/497051"}],"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=497035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}