{"id":602458,"date":"2022-07-02T08:27:15","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T06:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=602458"},"modified":"2022-07-02T08:27:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T06:27:15","slug":"eskom-nears-record-for-worst-year-of-load-shedding-ever-and-theres-still-6-months-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/602458\/eskom-nears-record-for-worst-year-of-load-shedding-ever-and-theres-still-6-months-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Eskom nears record for worst year of load shedding ever – and there’s still 6 months to go"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Africa\u2019s crippling power cuts are approaching an annual record, and there are still six months to go.<\/p>\n

Spurred by an illegal strike this week that added to its woes, utility Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. has already implemented controlled blackouts equal to more than 90% of the energy it shed for the whole of 2021, according to the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research.<\/p>\n

The power company has cut 2,276 gigawatt-hours of electricity in 2022 versus the current-record 2,521-gigawatt hours last year, the state-owned researcher said. Eskom switches off supply to large swathes of the country to avoid a total collapse of a grid fed by ageing and unreliable, mostly coal, plants prone to tripping.<\/p>\n

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Protests that started last week after a deadlock in wage negotiations have exacerbated the situation, deepening outages to so-called Stage 6 — removing 6,000 megawatts of demand — for the first time since the only other time it occurred, in 2019.<\/p>\n

Eskom this week cut more than four times the amount of energy at Stage 6 than it did previously, according to CSIR.<\/p>\n

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Read: Eskom reduces load shedding to stage 4 on Friday \u2013 here\u2019s the latest schedule<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

South Africa\u2019s crippling power cuts are approaching an annual record, and there are still six months to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":585878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874],"tags":[6752],"class_list":["post-602458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-headlne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602458","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602462,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602458\/revisions\/602462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}