Power utility Eskom has confirmed its latest load shedding update, detailing the schedule through to Wednesday, 2 November. Photo: Flickr
ICYMI: Eskom implements stage 5 load shedding on Saturday
South Africans have had to put up with stage 6 load shedding for over a week, due to breakdowns at some of Eskom’s power stations
Power utility Eskom has confirmed its latest load shedding update, detailing the schedule through to Wednesday, 2 November. Photo: Flickr
Eskom has downgraded load shedding to stage 5, effective from 05:00 on Saturday, 24 September 2022. The parastatal’s problems seem to know no end as it has been struggling to keep the lights on over the past few weeks.
The current electricity crisis even prompted Eskom to ramp up load shedding to stage 6 indefinitely, due to breakdowns at some of its power stations.
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STAGE 3 LOAD SHEDDING FOR THE COMING WEEK
Stage 5 load shedding is expected to continue at least until Sunday morning at 05:00, after which stage 4 of the rolling blackouts for 24 hours. Load shedding will again be downgraded to stage 3 on Monday morning, 26 September 2022.
“The capacity constraints will persist throughout next week. and current indications are that load shedding will be implemented at stage 3 for most of the week. A further update will be published on Sunday afternoon, or as soon as there are any significant changes,” Eskom spokesperson Sikonathi Mantshantsha said at the time.
Eskom adds that the load shedding from the weekend will be used to replenish the pumped storage dam levels, which have been utilised extensively over the past week.
Opposition parties and sectors, including civil society and business, have long called for Eskom to be taken off government’s hands, but Deputy president David Mabuza reckons their policy options and positions have not reached the point where privatisation is seen as an answer to providing better solutions to its current problems.
Mabuza said government is hard at work trying to make Eskom a more efficient and effective energy generation and transmission public entity with the necessary capabilities to ensure the security and consistency of energy supply, in the interest of the economy and human development.
