{"id":744147,"date":"2024-01-19T15:28:23","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T13:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=744147"},"modified":"2024-01-19T15:31:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T13:31:32","slug":"load-shedding-eased-for-the-weekend-heres-the-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/744147\/load-shedding-eased-for-the-weekend-heres-the-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Load shedding eased for the weekend &#8211; here&#8217;s the schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Power utility Eskom says that load shedding will be eased this weekend thanks to the return to service of a generating unit and a reduction in load losses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As generating capacity has improved, load shedding will be reduced from a rotation of stage 2 and stage 3 outages to continuous stage 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stage 2 load shedding will continue on Friday (19 January) until 05h00 on Sunday. Thereafter, stage 1 load shedding will kick in from 05h00 to 16h00.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An update for the week ahead will be published on Sunday, Eskom said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Friday, 19 January<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Stage 2: until 00h00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Saturday, 20 January<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Stage 2: 00h00 to 00h00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sunday, 21 January<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Stage 2: 00h00 to 05h00<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stage 1: 05h00 to 16h00<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stage TBD<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Breakdowns are currently at 13,792MW, while units off for planned maintenance amount to 8,484MW.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eskom said that it is working to return 2,150MW to service by Sunday evening, while demand peak is expected at just under 25,000MW.<\/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: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/743497\/an-eskom-nightmare-come-true\/\">An Eskom nightmare come true<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A positive turn for generation at Eskom means that load shedding will be eased slightly this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":735045,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-744147","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\/744147","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=744147"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":744155,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744147\/revisions\/744155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}