Load Shedding

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.

Stage 2 load shedding is anticipated to be implemented on Friday

Eskom to implement load shedding in the City of eThekwini from August 1

The power utility says it lost five of its generating units on Monday

Eskom announced that it will be implementing stage 4 loadshedding from Sunday afternoon.

Load shedding is set to resume in eThekwini from next month following the deadly floods that damaged infrastructure in April and May.

Eskom has announced that stage 6 load shedding will resume from Monday afternoon

Eskom has announced that it has implemented stage 4 loadshedding until 4pm today.

Eskom has announced rapidly that it is implementing stage 6 load shedding on Thursday and Friday heading into the weekend with possible stage 4 load shedding.