National power utility Eskom has announced it will implement Stage 2 load shedding from Monday (10 October) until Wednesday (12 October).<\/p>\n
Eskom said that load shedding would take effect between 16h00 and 00h00. The company stressed that it would attempt to limit load shedding to only night-time to best suit the country’s economy and people.<\/p>\n
“The load shedding will be used to replenish emergency generation reserves during the night to bolster generation capacity. Eskom will publish a further update on Wednesday afternoon or as soon as any significant changes occur,” said Eskom.<\/p>\n
Eskom said that since the start of the weekend (8 October), multiple generation units had come back online; however, a unit at each Kendal and Kusile power station were taken off for repairs.<\/p>\n
“We currently have 5,487MW on planned maintenance, while another 14,061MW of capacity is unavailable due to breakdowns.”<\/p>\n
This follows the group saying that it would suspend load shedding for the weekend period from 05:00 on Saturday morning (8 October) in the wake of lower anticipated demand as well as adequate levels of emergency generation reserves.<\/p>\n
The power utility stated prior to the temporary suspension: “While the generation capacity constraints persist, the suspension of load-shedding is possible due to the anticipated lower weekend demand, as well as adequate levels of emergency generation reserves.”<\/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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