Load Shedding

Stage 4 will last until 5am on Monday, with the power utility alternating stage 3 and 4 until Wednesday morning.

This comes after failure of two units occurred at a power station during the course of Wednesday evening.

This was necessary due to breakdowns of five generators at five power stations, said Eskom.

Due to lower weekend demand load shedding will be suspended at midnight on Friday.

The utility attributes the extension of load shedding to a persistent shortage of generation capacity.

Eskom will publish a further update on Sunday afternoon, or as soon as there are any significant changes.

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Eskom will publish a further update on Friday afternoon or as soon as there are significant changes.

As of the start of this week, the country has experienced 1,949 hours (81 days) of national load shedding in 2022.

The extended load shedding is required due to shortage of generation capacity as a result of high levels of breakdowns.

At stage 8 load shedding the outages would last anywhere between 12 and 16 hours.

The utility is struggling with one of its power stations, resulting in three units being shut down, with four units coming offline shortly.

Unless South Africa aggressively invests in renewable energy and relaxes air quality, Eskom might need to implement stage 15 load shedding.

Phaahla is expected to report on the impact and the intervention measures during a media briefing which is scheduled for Friday.

A further update will be published on Wednesday afternoon, as soon as there are significant changes.

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The highest stages of load shedding reached is stage 6, and there are fears that stages 7 and 8 could be on the horizon as the grid remains volatile.

Overnight a unit each at Camden, Kriel and Kendal were returned but unfortunately had to take off a unit at Duvha which developed a boiler tube leak.

Cape Town said it is working to build reserves to enable it to protect customers from two stages of Eskom's load shedding over the week ahead, where possible.

A press briefing will be held at 10h00 to give update on the situation.

The utility had 16,597MW of capacity unavailable due to breakdowns, while another 7,210MW was offline for planned maintenance.

The electricity supplier said stage 4 will be extended to Thursday and Friday with the possibilities of lower stages on Saturday.

Around 24 000MW was lost, five of those units remain offline.

Stage 2 load shedding will be implemented continuously for the rest of the week.