{"id":85231,"date":"2015-04-17T08:17:40","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T06:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=85231"},"modified":"2015-04-17T08:17:40","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T06:17:40","slug":"eskom-weekend-load-shedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/85231\/eskom-weekend-load-shedding\/","title":{"rendered":"Eskom weekend load shedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom will resume power cuts for the sixth day in a row when it starts implementing stage 1 load shedding from 06:00 on Friday morning. This is likely to continue until 22:00 this evening, the utility said.<\/p>\n<p>Load shedding started on Sunday and was kicked up a notch on both Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon when Eskom moved to stage 3 as it continues to battle meet demand amid a maintenance backlog.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday it moved from stage 1 in the morning to stage 2 in the afternoon due to a further shortage of generation capacity as additional units have had to be taken out of service for unplanned maintenance caused by technical faults.<\/p>\n<p>Eskom said in a statement on Friday the electricity supply system remains very constrained and vulnerable due to a shortage of generation capacity. &#8220;Several units are currently out of service due to planned and unplanned outages.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Eskom said load shedding is implemented as a necessary measure to protect the power system. &#8220;Any additional changes on the already vulnerable and constrained power system could lead to a change in the stage of load shedding at short notice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The outlook for the next five days looks just as bleak as demand continuously outstrips supply. The outlook for the next week is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Saturday (18 April)<\/strong>: The capacity available to meet that evening\u2019s peak demand is 30 165 MW (including open cycle gas turbines) while demand is forecast at 29 428 MW.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sunday (19 April)<\/strong>: The capacity available to meet that evening\u2019s peak demand is 30 165 MW (including open cycle gas turbines) while demand is forecast at 29 692 MW.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Monday (20 April)<\/strong>: The capacity available to meet that evening\u2019s peak demand is 29 895 MW (including open cycle gas turbines) while demand is forecast at 32 004 MW.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tuesday (21 April)<\/strong>: The capacity available to meet that evening\u2019s peak demand is 29 615 MW (including open cycle gas turbines) while demand is forecast at 32 020 MW.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Wednesday (22 April)<\/strong>: The capacity available to meet that evening\u2019s peak demand is 29 615 MW (including open cycle gas turbines) while demand is forecast at 31 986 MW.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At a media briefing on Wednesday, Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown said South Africans should expect load shedding to be a way of life for at least the next two years. &#8220;There will be load shedding for the next two years,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is time for South Africans and the economy to adapt to the situation and find a way to save electricity and manage their productivity during the few hours of load shedding when it occurs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Energy issues have been in focus during a week of harsh load shedding, with Brown briefing media on Wednesday about Eskom, Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson making a major announcement regarding IPPs (independent power producers) and labour unrest rocking Medupi power station.<\/p>\n<p>Source\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/www.fin24.com\/Economy\/Eskom-resumes-load-shedding-at-6am-20150417\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fin24.com\/Economy\/Eskom-resumes-load-shedding-at-6am-20150417\" target=\"_blank\">Fin24<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Eskom<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Eskom moves to stage 3 load shedding on Wednesday\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/85049\/eskom-moves-to-stage-3-load-shedding-on-wednesday\/\"><strong>Eskom moves to stage 3 load shedding on Wednesday<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"What about the schools and hospitals, Eskom?\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/84833\/what-about-the-schools-and-hospitals-eskom\/\"><strong>What about the schools and hospitals, Eskom?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Eskom to cut off 20 defaulting municipalities\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/84737\/eskom-to-cut-off-20-defaulting-municipalities\/\">Eskom to cut off 20 defaulting municipalities<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom will resume power cuts for the sixth day in a row when it starts implementing stage 1 load shedding on Friday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":79083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,1164,1165],"class_list":["post-85231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active","tag-eskom","tag-load-shedding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85231","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85233,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85231\/revisions\/85233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}