{"id":644603,"date":"2022-11-20T13:39:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T11:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=644603"},"modified":"2022-11-20T13:47:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T11:47:51","slug":"stage-5-load-shedding-hitting-this-week-heres-the-new-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/644603\/stage-5-load-shedding-hitting-this-week-heres-the-new-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Stage 5 load shedding hitting this week &#8211; here&#8217;s the new schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Power utility Eskom has announced that load shedding will be pushed to stage 5 on Monday (21 November) during the evenings between 16h00 and 00h00 to Wednesday (23 November) after it experienced more breakdowns at its stations.<\/p>\n<p>Stage 4 load shedding will be implemented from 17:00 this afternoon (20 November) until 16:00 on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The schedule is as follows:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday, 20 November<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stage 4: 17h00 to 00h00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Monday, 21 November<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stage 4: 00h00 to 16h00<\/li>\n<li>Stage 5: 16h00 to 00h00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, 22 November<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stage 4: 00h00 to 05h00<\/li>\n<li>Stage 3: 05h00 to 16h00<\/li>\n<li>Stage 5: 16h00 to 00h00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, 23 November<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stage 4: 00h00 to 05h00<\/li>\n<li>Stage 2: 05h00 to 16h00<\/li>\n<li>Stage 5: 16h00 to 00h00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Load-shedding-20-November.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-644615\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Load-shedding-20-November.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Load-shedding-20-November.jpg 660w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Load-shedding-20-November-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The increased implementation of load shedding is mainly due to the high levels of breakdowns and the depleted emergency generation reserves,&#8221; Eskom said.<\/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><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Stage4?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Stage4<\/a> loadshedding will be implemented at 17:00 this afternoon until 16:00 on Monday. Various stages of loadshedding will be implemented during the week <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UlfcFPBYlx\">pic.twitter.com\/UlfcFPBYlx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eskom Hld SOC Ltd (@Eskom_SA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Eskom_SA\/status\/1594288144043872258?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Three units at Kusile Power Station are offline due to the duct (chimney structure) failure late in October and will remain offline for a few months while repairs to the chimney system take place.<\/p>\n<p>Unit one of Koeberg Nuclear Power Station will continue to generate at a reduced output over the next three weeks as the fuel is depleted ahead of the refuelling and maintenance outage scheduled to commence in December 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Since Sunday morning, a generating unit each at Arnot, Grootvlei and Majuba power stations has been taken offline for repairs. A generating unit at Kriel Power Station was returned to service. We currently have 5 354MW on planned maintenance, while another 14 495MW of capacity is unavailable due to breakdowns.<\/p>\n<p>The power utility reminded South Africans that load shedding is implemented only as a last resort in view of the shortage of generation capacity and the need to attend 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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power utility Eskom has announced that load shedding will be pushed to stage 5 on Monday (21 November).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":641473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874],"tags":[1164,26],"class_list":["post-644603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-eskom","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644603","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=644603"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":644623,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644603\/revisions\/644623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}