Eskom says that it is unable to keep the lights on into the new year and that load shedding will no longer be suspended on Saturday. Image: Pixabay.com
Eskom confirms load shedding for the week: Here’s the full schedule
Power utility Eskom announced that load shedding would be pushed to Stage 4 on Sunday – with more load shedding planned for the week ahead.
Eskom says that it is unable to keep the lights on into the new year and that load shedding will no longer be suspended on Saturday. Image: Pixabay.com
Power utility Eskom announced that load shedding would be pushed to Stage 4 on Sunday – with more outages planned for the week ahead.
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Load shedding will be at Stage 4 until 05:00 on Monday, 24 October and will continue at various stages for the rest of the week.
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Schedule for the week:
Sunday, 23 October
- Stage 4 – 12h00 to 00h00
Monday, 24 October
- Stage 4 – 00h00 to 05h00
- Stage 3 – 05h00 to 16h00
- Stage 4 – 16h00 to 00h00
Tuesday, 25 October
- Stage 4 – 00h00 to 05h00
- Stage 3 – 05h00 to 16h00
- Stage 4 – 16h00 to 00h00
Wednesday, 26 October
- Stage 4 – 00h00 to 05h00
- Stage 3 – 05h00 to 16h00
- Stage 4 – 16h00 to 00h00
Thursday, 27 October (provisional)
- Stage 4 – 00h00 to 05h00
- Stage 3 – 05h00 to 00h00
Friday, 28 October (provisional)
- Stage 3 – 00h00 to 05h00
- Stage 2 – 00h500 to 00h00
Note: The schedules for Thursday and Friday are provisional and a clearer – and updated picture – will be presented later in the week.
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Eskom said that its emergency generation reserves are almost depleted – both the diesel and pumped storage dam levels.
“The higher load shedding stages are required to help build up the emergency generation reserves during the week,” it said.
During the weekend, the breakdown of a generating unit each at Duvha, Kriel and Medupi power stations, as well as the delayed returns of a generating unit each at Camden, Kusile, Komati, and Kendal power stations have exacerbated current generation capacity shortages, forcing the escalation of load shedding.
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Eskom teams have returned a generating unit each at Grootvlei, Hendrina, Majuba, Matla and Tutuka power stations to service.
The group currently has 6 004MW on planned maintenance, while another 14 961MW of capacity is unavailable due to breakdowns.
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