{"id":754869,"date":"2024-02-24T17:47:30","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T15:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=754869"},"modified":"2024-02-24T19:27:43","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T17:27:43","slug":"why-stage-4-load-shedding-is-still-going-and-when-it-will-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/754869\/why-stage-4-load-shedding-is-still-going-and-when-it-will-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Why stage 4 load shedding is still going &#8211; and when it will end"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Update: <\/strong>Eskom says that load shedding will be reduced to stage 2 on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Load shedding will be reduced to Stage 2 from 05h00 on Sunday until 16h00. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thereafter, Stage 3 load shedding will be implemented from 16h00 until 05h00 on Monday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a result of the anticipated recovery of emergency reserves overnight, and the two generating units expected to return to service by Sunday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Original: <\/strong>Power utility Eskom says that stage 4 load shedding will remain in effect until further notice &#8211; with hopes that things will improve by Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The utility explained that a loss of five generating units on Thursday required an escalation to stage 4 load shedding, which remains in force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Eskom, the events that led to the loss of generating capacity at Kendal Power Station units are as follows: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Kendal Unit 1 was taken offline on Wednesday at 20h00 due to leaking safety valves, which caused the capacity of the demineralised water storage tanks to run low.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>While recovering the storage water tanks, a contamination incident occurred in the water treatment plant, necessitating the isolation of the plant to investigate the root cause. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>During this period of investigation, the level of auxiliary cooling water, which also uses demineralised water, ran low. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This led to capacity loss from four generating units at 2h00 in the morning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The utility said that its teams have returned the first unit back into service, and two more are planned to be returned on Sunday, 25&nbsp;February&nbsp;2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Schedules<\/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\/754415\/eskom-clarifies-low-energy-availability-numbers\/\">Eskom \u2018clarifies\u2019 low energy availability numbers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom has explained what led to stage 4 load shedding being implemented this week &#8211; and why it&#8217;s still going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":714840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-754869","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\/754869","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=754869"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754875,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754869\/revisions\/754875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}