{"id":681845,"date":"2023-04-19T16:15:58","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T14:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=681845"},"modified":"2023-04-19T16:17:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T14:17:21","slug":"stage-5-and-6-load-shedding-to-continue-indefinitely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/681845\/stage-5-and-6-load-shedding-to-continue-indefinitely\/","title":{"rendered":"Stage 5 and 6 load shedding to continue indefinitely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Power utility Eskom says that the current rotational schedule, moving between stage 5 and stage 6 load shedding, will continue indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>Stage 6 load shedding will continue to be implemented until 05h00 on Thursday (19 April), followed by stage 5 load shedding until 16h00. Stage 6 load shedding will return for the evening between 16h00 and 05h00 again.<\/p>\n<p>This pattern will repeat until further notice, Eskom said.<\/p>\n<p>The schedule is below:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, 19 April<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stage 6: until 00h00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Friday, 20 April<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stage 6: 00h00 to 05h00<\/li>\n<li>Stage 5: 05h00 to 16h00<\/li>\n<li>Stage 6: 16h00 to 00h00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Saturday, 21 April<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stage 6: 00h00 to 05h00<\/li>\n<li>Stage 5: 05h00 to 16h00<\/li>\n<li>Stage 6: 16h00 to 00h00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The group moved to the schedule on Monday, following an extended period of all-day load shedding at stage 6. The utility has been unable to boost supply enough to warrant an easing of stages.<\/p>\n<p>The situation has deteriorated to the point the group had to implement the equivalent of stage 7 load shedding on Tuesday evening (18 April), after breaching the <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/680673\/stage-8-load-shedding-hits-as-south-africa-runs-out-of-time\/\">stage 8 equivalent<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p>Eskom says that even though it is load shedding at levels beyond stage 6 (over 6,000MW), the load shedding stages are not higher due to load curtailment taking place.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the group shed 6,226MW from the grid, which included stage 6 load shedding, and stage 4 load curtailment.<\/p>\n<p>The grid remains under severe strain despite Koeberg unit 1 being synchronised to the grid late on Sunday (16 April).<\/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><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: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/681811\/eskoms-quick-fix-to-cut-load-shedding-could-kill-hundreds\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Eskom\u2019s \u2018quick fix\u2019 to cut load shedding could kill hundreds<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High stages of load shedding will continue to the weekend, Eskom says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":671797,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874],"tags":[1164,26],"class_list":["post-681845","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\/681845","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=681845"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":681853,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681845\/revisions\/681853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}