{"id":651953,"date":"2022-12-14T20:42:24","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T18:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=651953"},"modified":"2022-12-14T20:45:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T18:45:25","slug":"eskom-announces-load-shedding-changes-for-the-long-weekend-heres-the-new-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/651953\/eskom-announces-load-shedding-changes-for-the-long-weekend-heres-the-new-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Eskom announces load shedding changes for the long weekend &#8211; here&#8217;s the new schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Power utility Eskom says that load shedding will be gradually reduced to stage 3 over the next few days.<\/p>\n<p>Stage 5 load shedding will be reduced to stage 4 starting from 05h00 on Thursday (15 December), which will continue until Sunday (18 December).<\/p>\n<p>Thereafter, load shedding will be reduced to stage 3, it said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, 14 December<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stage 5: until 00h00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Thursday, 15 December<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stage 5: 00h00 to 05h00<\/li>\n<li>Stage 4: 05h00 to 00h00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Friday, 16 December<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stage 4: 00h00 to 00h00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Saturday, 17 December<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stage 4: 00h00 to 00h00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Sunday, 18 December<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stage 4: 00h00 to 05h00<\/li>\n<li>Stage 3: 05h00 until further notice<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Since Tuesday morning, a unit each at Camden, Kriel, Majuba, Matla and Duvha power stations were taken offline for repairs and planned maintenance. In addition, the delay in returning to service a generating unit each at Arnot, Duvha and Hendrina power stations has contributed to the capacity constraints.<\/p>\n<p>A generating unit each at Grootvlei, Camden, Kriel, Majuba power stations returned to service.<\/p>\n<p>The group currently has 6,618MW on planned maintenance, while another 15,996MW of capacity is unavailable due to breakdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Eskom group CEO Andre de Ruyter announced his resignation from the group on Wednesday evening, following weeks of political and social pressure due to elevated levels of load shedding.<\/p>\n<p>He will remain on for three more months and make his exit on 31 March 2023.<\/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: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/651903\/eskom-ceo-andre-de-ruyter-resigns-report\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter resigns<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the load shedding schedule through the coming long weekend.<\/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-651953","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\/651953","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=651953"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":651959,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651953\/revisions\/651959"}],"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=651953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}