Eskom has announced that stage 3 and stage 4 load shedding will continue to be implemented until Saturday.<\/p>\n
Stage 3 load shedding will be implemented between 00h00 and 16h00, escalating to stage 4 between 16h00 and 00h00 every day until Saturday, the group said.<\/p>\n
The power utility said that it is currently experiencing breakdowns at its plants totalling 15,492MW, with planned maintenance at 5,076MW.<\/p>\n
A further update on load shedding for the weekend will be published on Friday, Eskom said.<\/p>\n
South Africa has been suffering continued blackouts for weeks, with load shedding hitting its worst point at stage 6, followed by a week of stage 5 outages. Energy availability has been its lowest on record, with the estimate for September at 51%.<\/p>\n
The country has also hit other records, including the longest streak of load shedding. Analyst estimate that South Africa’s economy is losing between R150 million and R200 million a day due to load shedding.<\/p>\n
Eskom recently published its load shedding outlook for the rest of the year, noting that it has to keep unplanned outages below 13,000MW to minimise rolling blackouts.<\/p>\n
In a more load shedding-heavy scenario, if outages remain above 14,500MW, stage 2 load shedding will be frequent for the foreseeable future. If the power utility cannot keep outages under 16,000MW, load shedding at higher stages becomes the standard.<\/p>\n
Schedules\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n For people living in the major metros, load shedding schedules are available here:<\/p>\n For access to other load shedding schedules, Eskom has made them available on\u00a0loadshedding.eskom.co.za.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n 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\n
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