{"id":637049,"date":"2022-10-23T11:37:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T09:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=637049"},"modified":"2022-10-23T11:42:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T09:42:29","slug":"load-shedding-pushed-to-stage-4-as-emergency-reserves-run-dry-heres-the-schedule-for-the-week-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/637049\/load-shedding-pushed-to-stage-4-as-emergency-reserves-run-dry-heres-the-schedule-for-the-week-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Load shedding pushed to stage 4 as emergency reserves run dry &#8211; here&#8217;s the schedule for the week ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Power utility Eskom has announced that load shedding will be pushed to stage 4 on Sunday afternoon &#8211; with more load shedding planned for the entire week.<\/p>\n<p>Load shedding will be at stage 4 from 12h00 on Sunday to 05h00 on Monday (24 October), and will continue at various stages for the rest of the week.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the schedule:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday, 23 October<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stage 4 &#8211; 12h00 to 00h00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Monday, 24 October<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stage 4 &#8211; 00h00 to 05h00<\/li>\n<li>Stage 3 &#8211; 05h00 to 16h00<\/li>\n<li>Stage 4 &#8211; 16h00 to 00h00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, 25 October<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stage 4 &#8211; 00h00 to 05h00<\/li>\n<li>Stage 3 &#8211; 05h00 to 16h00<\/li>\n<li>Stage 4 &#8211; 16h00 to 00h00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, 26 October<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stage 4 &#8211; 00h00 to 05h00<\/li>\n<li>Stage 3 &#8211; 05h00 to 16h00<\/li>\n<li>Stage 4 &#8211; 16h00 to 00h00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Thursday, 27 October (provisional)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stage 4 &#8211; 00h00 to 05h00<\/li>\n<li>Stage 3 &#8211; 05h00 to 00h00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Friday, 28 October (provisional)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stage 3 &#8211; 00h00 to 05h00<\/li>\n<li>Stage 2 &#8211; 00h500 to 00h00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Load-shedding-23-October.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-637055\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Load-shedding-23-October.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"589\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Load-shedding-23-October.png 589w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Load-shedding-23-October-300x199.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 589px) 100vw, 589px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The schedules for Thursday and Friday are provisional and a better picture will be presented later in the week.<\/p>\n<p>Eskom said that its emergency generation reserves are almost depleted &#8211; both the diesel and pumped storage dam levels.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The higher load shedding stages are required to help build up the emergency generation reserves during the week,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>During the weekend, the breakdown of a generating unit each at Duvha, Kriel and Medupi power stations, as well as the delayed returns of a generating unit each at Camden, Kusile, Komati, and Kendal power stations have exacerbated current generation capacity shortages, forcing the escalation of load shedding.<\/p>\n<p>Eskom teams have returned a generating unit each at Grootvlei, Hendrina, Majuba, Matla and Tutuka power stations to service.<\/p>\n<p>The group currently has 6,004MW on planned maintenance, while another 14,961MW of capacity is unavailable due to breakdowns.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Schedules\u00a0<\/strong><\/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:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/634611\/some-south-africans-get-an-extra-hour-of-load-shedding-heres-why\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Some South Africans get an extra hour of load shedding \u2013 here\u2019s why<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power utility Eskom has announced that load shedding will be pushed to stage 4 on Sunday afternoon &#8211; with more load shedding planned for the entire week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":481315,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-637049","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\/637049","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=637049"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":637063,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637049\/revisions\/637063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}