{"id":734535,"date":"2023-11-29T05:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T03:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=734535"},"modified":"2023-11-29T06:15:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T04:15:46","slug":"load-shedding-pushed-even-higher-this-week-heres-the-latest-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/734535\/load-shedding-pushed-even-higher-this-week-heres-the-latest-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Load shedding pushed even higher this week &#8211; here&#8217;s the latest schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Power utility Eskom has announced that load shedding will be pushed even higher this week, with daytime stage 4 load shedding ramping up to stage 5 before hitting stage 6 at night, as previously announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The further escaltion in outages is due to the group not having enough generation capacity and the need to replenish emergency reserves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This means instead of a stage 4\/stage 6 rotation until Saturday (2 December), it will now be a stage 5\/stage 6 rotation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The schedule is as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Wednesday, 29 November<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Stage 6: 00h00 to 05h00<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stage 5: 05h00 to 20h00<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stage 6: 20h00 to 00h00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thursday, 30 November<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Stage 6: 00h00 to 05h00<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stage 5: 05h00 to 20h00<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stage 6: 20h00 to 00h00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Friday, 1 December<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Stage 6: 00h00 to 05h00<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stage 5: 05h00 to 20h00<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stage 6: 20h00 to 00h00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Saturday, 2 December<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Stage 6: 00h00 to 05h00<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stage and time TBA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEskom will closely monitor the power system and communicate any changes to load shedding should it be required,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities have laid the blame for stage 6 load shedding at the feet of the emergency reserve usage, which the utility has had to dip into to meet growing demand and energy shortfalls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Analysis of Eskom&#8217;s plant performance data shows that lower demand has been a key reason why South Africa has been able to keep load shedding at lower stages in recent months, but a heatwave throughout the country has caused this demand to increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Eskom has entrenched breakdowns and outages above 30% of capacity and has turned to burning large amounts of diesel at its open cycle gas turbines to balance this out. Analysts have noted that this move comes at a significant cost, adding that when the diesel runs out, disaster &#8211; like stage 6 load shedding &#8211; hits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The load shedding issues also come despite Eskom&#8217;s announcement on Tuesday that another unit at Kusile has been synchronised to the grid, adding a further 800MW to the pile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All three units are now back in service, providing 2,400MW to the grid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Schedules&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For people living in the major metros, load shedding schedules are available here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.citypower.co.za\/customers\/Pages\/Load_Shedding_Downloads.aspx\">City of Johannesburg<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ekurhuleni.gov.za\/residents\/load-shedding-schedules.html\">City of Ekurhuleni&nbsp;<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tshwane.gov.za\/?page_id=1124\">City of Tshwane&nbsp;<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\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=\"noreferrer noopener\">City of Cape Town (PDF)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nelsonmandelabay.gov.za\/page\/loadshedding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nelson Mandela Bay<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/690923\/heres-the-new-load-shedding-schedule-for-ethekwini-taking-effect-tomorrow\/\">eThekwini<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/centlec.co.za\/LoadShedding\/LoadSheddingDocuments\">Manguang<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buffalocity.gov.za\/notice.php?id=4JVjjqq9G\">Buffalo City<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>For access to other load shedding schedules, Eskom has made them available on&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/loadshedding.eskom.co.za\/\">loadshedding.eskom.co.za.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\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\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/734159\/stage-6-load-shedding-gut-punches-south-africa\/\">Stage 6 load shedding gut punches South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom has pushed load shedding even higher this week, with daytime outages intensifying head of stage 6 at night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":679989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-734535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734535","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=734535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":734537,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734535\/revisions\/734537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}