{"id":679113,"date":"2023-04-08T11:26:17","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T09:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=679113"},"modified":"2023-04-08T14:13:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T12:13:51","slug":"eskom-surprisingly-suspends-load-shedding-heres-the-new-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/679113\/eskom-surprisingly-suspends-load-shedding-heres-the-new-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Eskom suspends load shedding sooner than expected &#8211; here&#8217;s the new schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom has announced that load shedding is suspended from 11h00 until 17h00 this Saturday (8 April).<\/p>\n<p>Stage 2 is set to follow suit at 17h00 this afternoon until 05h00 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Load shedding will then be suspended again from 05h00 on Sunday until 16h00,&#8221; said Eskom.<\/p>\n<p>According to the embattled power utility, the reduction in load shedding is a result of less electricity demand.<\/p>\n<p>Following this reduction, Eskom said that load shedding will continue as previously scheduled.<\/p>\n<p>Holidaymakers across the country have left major metros to celebrate the Easter holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, prior to the holiday, Eskom said that it aims to also suspend load shedding between 05h00 and 16h00 on Sunday (9 April) and Monday (10 April).<\/p>\n<p>The company has been struggling to maintain a stable energy supply nearly every day this year so far; however, the government has implemented various new initiatives to try a curb the disastrous effects of rolling blackouts.<\/p>\n<p>The country has seen a massive push towards the adoption of new electricity generation from independent power producers, specifically in the field of renewables including wind and solar.<\/p>\n<p>9,600MW of wind power, 3,940MW of solar PV and 1,231Mw of energy storage is aimed to be implemented between 2024 and 2030, said the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy.<\/p>\n<p>Procurement programmes to meet the new renewable targets are being instituted &#8216;as soon as reasonably possible&#8217; to connect with the national grid.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday, 9 April<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stage 2: 00h00 to 05h00<\/li>\n<li>Suspended: 05h00 to 16h00<\/li>\n<li>Stage 3: 16h00 to 00h00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Monday, 10 April<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stage 3: 00h00 to 05h00<\/li>\n<li>Suspended: 05h00 to 16h00<\/li>\n<li>Stage 3: 16h00 to 00h00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.citypower.co.za\/customers\/Pages\/Load_Shedding_Downloads.aspx\">City of Johannesburg<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ekurhuleni.gov.za\/residents\/load-shedding-schedules.html\">City of Ekurhuleni\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tshwane.gov.za\/?page_id=1124\">City of Tshwane\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><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><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nelsonmandelabay.gov.za\/page\/loadshedding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nelson Mandela Bay<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.durban.gov.za\/pages\/residents\/load-shedding\">eThekwini<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/centlec.co.za\/LoadShedding\/LoadSheddingDocuments\">Manguang<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buffalocity.gov.za\/notice.php?id=4JVjjqq9G\">Buffalo City<\/a><\/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: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/677639\/south-africa-is-losing-billions-of-rands-and-its-not-because-of-load-shedding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South Africa is losing billions of rands \u2013 and it\u2019s not because of load shedding<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom grants holidaymakers a break from load shedding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":659107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874],"tags":[1164,26],"class_list":["post-679113","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\/679113","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=679113"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":679127,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679113\/revisions\/679127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}