{"id":809703,"date":"2025-01-31T10:36:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T08:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=809703"},"modified":"2025-01-31T10:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T08:49:09","slug":"eskom-issues-stage-4-load-shedding-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/809703\/eskom-issues-stage-4-load-shedding-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Eskom issues Stage 4 load shedding alert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Power utility Eskom has issued a load shedding alert, warning of a high risk of outages this weekend\u2014possibly up to stage 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This follows more than 10 months of uninterrupted electricity supply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Eskom has issued an alert indicating a high risk of load shedding at short notice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is a potentially temporary setback. Load shedding is largely behind us due to the structural improvements in our generation fleet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“However, over the past seven days, we have experienced several breakdowns that require extended repair times. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This has necessitated the use of all our emergency reserves, which now need to be replenished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Consequently, we are closely monitoring the status of our current emergency reserves, and load shedding up to Stage 4 may be implemented over the weekend<\/strong>.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eskom said further updates will be issued in due course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While load shedding has been suspended for a long time, energy experts have consistently warned that the energy crisis behind the outages is not over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eskom has seen a significant turnaround in its operations and has managed to restore a lot of its lost capacity, but the country still operates on a fine line between supply and demand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The group’s summer outlook still had load shedding on the cards despite the likelihood of needing the outages being low.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eskom\u2019s 52-week outlook for 2025 also predicted risk scenarios where there would be a shortfall in energy supply, particularly around this time\u2014the end of January and into February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The outlook also shows a \u201clikely risk\u201d scenario where Eskom will have a shortfall of over 2,000MW for most winter months (from May).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the past year, even with no load shedding, the utility has also had to turn to its Open Cycle Gas Turbines to avoid returning to nationwide outages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the high risk of stage 4 load shedding this weekend, Eskom said that its summer outlook remains the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After 10 months of uninterrupted electricity supply, Eskom has warned that load shedding may hit this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":647437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874],"tags":[1164,1165],"class_list":["post-809703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-eskom","tag-load-shedding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809703","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=809703"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":809719,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809703\/revisions\/809719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}