Africa-Press – South-Africa. Power utility Eskom says that load shedding will be reduced to stage 2 on Tuesday (12 December) before moving back to stage 3 tomorrow.
The power utility previously said that load shedding would remain at stage 3 load shedding until 16:00 on Thursday.
However, Eskom said due to sustained generation capacity improvement and adequate emergency reserves, load shedding will be reduced to stage 2 from 07:00 today until 16:00.
Thereafter, Stage 3 load shedding will be implemented, as previously communicated, from 16:00 today until 16:00 on Thursday.
On Monday (11 December), Eskom noted that unplanned outages were at 12,889MW, whilst planned maintenance stands at 7,115MW of generation capacity, while an additional 1,000 MW – or one stage of load shedding – was expected to return to service from Monday until Thursday.
Eskom said it would continue monitoring the power system closely and would communicate should any significant changes occur.
Schedules
For people living in the major metros, load shedding schedules are available here:
City of Johannesburg
City of Ekurhuleni
City of Tshwane
City of Cape Town (PDF)
Nelson Mandela Bay
eThekwini
Manguang
Buffalo City
For access to other load shedding schedules, Eskom has made them available on loadshedding.eskom.co.za.
Smartphone users can also download the app EskomSePush to receive push notifications when load shedding is implemented, as well as the times the area you are in will be off.
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