{"id":666953,"date":"2023-02-22T10:23:47","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T08:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=666953"},"modified":"2023-02-22T10:23:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T08:23:47","slug":"eskom-quietly-cuts-7000-mw-without-a-move-to-stage-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/666953\/eskom-quietly-cuts-7000-mw-without-a-move-to-stage-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Eskom quietly cuts 7,000 MW &#8211; without a move to stage 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s struggling state-owned utility Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. appears to have reached an unprecedented level of power cuts, indicated late Tuesday by the company spokesman.<\/p>\n<p>The company cut 7,045 megawatts from the grid, a practice locally referred to as loadshedding, in order to keep the grid from a total collapse, Sikonathi Mantshantsha said in a post on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>While that would be the deepest level of outage on record, so-called Stage 7 power cuts were not formally announced on Eskom\u2019s schedule.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent announcement said the utility is implementing Stage 6, where it removes 6,000 megawatts.<\/p>\n<p>Eskom\u2019s media desk didn\u2019t immediately respond to an email seeking comment, and Mantshantsha didn\u2019t immediately respond to a phone call and a text message.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Evening Peak Feedback 21\/02\/2023, 19:15<br \/>\nTotal demand: 30 480MW<br \/>\nLoadshedding: 7 045MW<br \/>\nEskom OCGT&#8217;s Utilised: 14<br \/>\nEskom GT\u2019s Utilised: 3<br \/>\nIPP OCGT&#8217;s: 5<br \/>\nRenewable Gen: 1 262MW (Wind 791MW, CSP 390MW, PV 81MW)<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Eskom_SA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Eskom_SA<\/a> Available Generation: 23 289MW<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EskomSpokesper1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@EskomSpokesper1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SikonathiMantshantsh (@SikonathiM) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SikonathiM\/status\/1628097928366628867?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 21, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>South Africa has declared a state of disaster due to its energy crisis. Eskom has been forced to implement power cuts every day this year as its fleet of old and defective coal-powered stations frequently breaks down.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/666785\/stage-8-load-shedding-will-cost-big-businesses-r120-million-to-keep-the-lights-on\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Stage 8 load shedding will cost big businesses R120 million to keep the lights on<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom cut 7,000MW from the grid, but there was no official move to stage 7 load shedding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":641157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[1164,26],"class_list":["post-666953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-eskom","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666953","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=666953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666975,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666953\/revisions\/666975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}