{"id":579976,"date":"2022-04-22T13:25:16","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T11:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=579976"},"modified":"2022-04-22T13:25:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T11:25:16","slug":"eskom-to-suspend-load-shedding-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/579976\/eskom-to-suspend-load-shedding-on-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Eskom to suspend load shedding on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Power utility Eskom has announced that load shedding will be suspended on Friday (22 April) at 22h00.<\/p>\n<p>However, it warned that the national grid remains under pressure and unpredictable, and that load shedding could easily make a return should it be deemed necessary.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Eskom expects to return to service nine generation units during the weekend. The low weekend demand will assist in replenishing emergency reserves,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We would again like to caution that even with the return to service of these units, the power system remains severely constrained and volatile. During the next week, we anticipate to continue relying on the use of emergency reserves to meet demand.&#8221;<\/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 suspended at 22:00 tonight. Eskom cautions that supply will remain severely constrained <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VCguy3fXga\">pic.twitter.com\/VCguy3fXga<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eskom Hld SOC Ltd (@Eskom_SA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Eskom_SA\/status\/1517460848700239879?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 22, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Eskom\u2019s updated winter shedding forecast indicates that load shedding is likely to continue in the coming months unless it can manage unplanned outages.<\/p>\n<p>In a media briefing on Tuesday (19 April), Eskom laid out three scenarios:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the best case, Eskom said that if it can keep unplanned outages below 12,500MW then there will be\u00a0zero days of load shedding\u00a0in the coming months.<\/li>\n<li>A medium-case scenario would see the country face\u00a0seven days of load shedding,<\/li>\n<li>In an\u00a0extreme scenario,\u00a0the country would see\u00a0101 days of load shedding.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/579254\/interest-rate-hike-and-load-shedding-double-blow-to-hit-south-africa\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Interest rate hike and load shedding double-blow to hit South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power utility Eskom has announced that load shedding will be suspended on Friday (22 April) at 22h00.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":432080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-579976","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\/579976","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=579976"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":579982,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579976\/revisions\/579982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}