Eskom has amended its load shedding update, laying out its schedule through to Sunday, 30 October. Here’s the City of Cape Town’s plan. Photo: Twitter @CityofCT
City of Cape Town confirms load shedding schedule for the week: It’s GOOD news!
National power utility Eskom has announced that it will implement Stage 2 load shedding from Monday to Wednesday this week.
Eskom has amended its load shedding update, laying out its schedule through to Sunday, 30 October. Here’s the City of Cape Town’s plan. Photo: Twitter @CityofCT
National power utility Eskom announced on Sunday that it will implement Stage 2 load shedding from Monday, 10 October until Wednesday, 12 October.
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Eskom said that load shedding would take effect for eight hours each day between 16:00 and 00:00.
“The load shedding will be used to replenish emergency generation reserves during the night to bolster generation capacity. Eskom will publish a further update on Wednesday afternoon or as soon as any significant changes occur,” said Eskom.
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Eskom said that since the start of the weekend, multiple generation units had come back online.
However, a unit at each Kendal and Kusile power station were taken off for repairs.
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“We currently have 5 487MW on planned maintenance, while another 14 061MW of capacity is unavailable due to breakdowns.”
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Meanwhile, in reaction to Eskom’s plan, the City of Cape Town also amended its schedule.
Those who receive their electricity from the City of Cape Town won’t have any outages this week!
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