{"id":532832,"date":"2021-10-28T08:22:57","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T06:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=532832"},"modified":"2021-10-28T08:25:53","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T06:25:53","slug":"eased-load-shedding-expected-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/532832\/eased-load-shedding-expected-on-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Eased&#8217; load shedding expected on Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Power utility Eskom is set to reduce load shedding on Thursday (28 October) to stage 3 with an additional 2,000MW of generating capacity set to come online, says public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan.<\/p>\n<p>In a media briefing on Wednesday evening, the minister said that further generating capacity is expected to return to service on Thursday and Friday, which would allow for a further downgrade to stage 2 load shedding.<\/p>\n<p>He added that load shedding is set to end this weekend ahead of the local government elections on Monday (1 November).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Eskom, and ourselves as government, are doing everything possible to ensure the elections are not disrupted in any way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gordhan added that a number of contingency measures have also been put in place with the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) to ensure that the elections were not disrupted by power supply issues.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WC_g2srQfys\" width=\"640\" height=\"430\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Eskom announced stage 4 load shedding due to further shortage of generation capacity.<\/p>\n<p>The power utility said that a unit at each of its Medupi, Kusile and Matla power stations tripped, while a unit each at Lethabo and Arnot power stations were forced to shut down.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This constrained the power system further requiring extensive use of emergency reserves, therefore hampering the recovery of these reserves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For people living in the major metros, 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<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/532446\/joburg-targets-move-away-from-load-shedding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joburg targets move away from load shedding<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power utility Eskom is set to reduce load shedding on Thursday (28 October) to stage 3 with an additional 2,000MW of generating capacity set to come online, says public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":466991,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-532832","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\/532832","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=532832"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":532850,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532832\/revisions\/532850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}