{"id":742275,"date":"2024-01-13T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T10:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=742275"},"modified":"2024-01-13T14:10:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T12:10:49","slug":"eskom-cancels-stage-4-load-shedding-for-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/742275\/eskom-cancels-stage-4-load-shedding-for-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Eskom cancels stage 4 load shedding for today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Eskom has cancelled stage 4 load shedding for today (13 January) due to improvements in generation capacity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The slight improvement in generation capacity, as well as the recovery of emergency reserves for the week ahead, has enabled Eskom not to implement Stage 4 load shedding from 16:00 today, as previously communicated,&#8221; Eskom said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Stage 3 load shedding will remain in place until 16:00 on Sunday when Stage 4 load shedding will be implemented,&#8221; it added. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eskom noted that it would closely monitor the power system and communicate any changes should it be required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Saturday, 13 January<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Stage 3: 00h00 to 16h00<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stage 3: 16h00 to 00h00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sunday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Stage 3: 00h00 to 05h00<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stage 3: 05h00 to 16h00<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stage 4: 16h00 to 00h00<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Eskom said that its teams are working to ensure that 1,960MW of generating capacity is returned to service by the evening of Monday, 15 January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><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\/energy\/740499\/south-africas-big-new-plan-to-end-load-shedding-for-good\/\">South Africa\u2019s big new plan to end load shedding for good<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom has cancelled stage 4 load shedding for today. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":681085,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874],"tags":[1164,853],"class_list":["post-742275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-eskom","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742275","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=742275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":742277,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742275\/revisions\/742277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}