{"id":533104,"date":"2021-10-29T07:02:39","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T05:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=533104"},"modified":"2021-10-29T07:03:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T05:03:17","slug":"eskom-moves-to-stage-2-load-shedding-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/533104\/eskom-moves-to-stage-2-load-shedding-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Eskom moves to stage 2 load shedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom has reduced load shedding to stage two on Friday morning, having returned some generation capacity to service over the past 24-hours.<\/p>\n<p>The power utility said that stage two load shedding will be implemented until 5:00 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over the past 24 hours, a unit each at the Koeberg, Medupi, Kriel, Kusile and Tutuka power stations have returned to service, helping to ease the current capacity constraints.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group said that a unit each at Majuba and Arnot power stations tripped, while a single unit at Matla was forced to shut down.<\/p>\n<p>Total breakdowns amount to 14,161MW, while planned maintenance is 5,449MW of capacity, it said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>Loadshedding will be reduced to Stage 3 from 21:00 on Thursday until 05:00 on Friday; thereafter Stage 2 loadshedding will be implemented as previously<br \/>\ncommunicated until 05:00 on Saturday <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Mta1XRFt6m\">pic.twitter.com\/Mta1XRFt6m<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eskom Hld SOC Ltd (@Eskom_SA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Eskom_SA\/status\/1453769403342934021?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 28, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Eskom has warned in a summer load shedding forecast for 2021\/2022, that its system is likely to remain severely constrained for the near future.<\/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\/531808\/here-is-eskoms-load-shedding-forecast-for-the-next-year-and-things-could-get-much-worse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here is Eskom\u2019s load shedding forecast for the next year \u2013 and things could get much worse<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom has reduced load shedding to stage two on Friday morning, having returned some generation capacity to service over the past 24-hours.<\/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":[1164,26],"class_list":["post-533104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-eskom","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533104","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=533104"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533114,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533104\/revisions\/533114"}],"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=533104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}