Eskom will implement stage 2 power cuts between 17:00 and 22:00 on Monday, 20 June 2022, and it will continue at the same time until Thursday, 23 June.<\/p>\n
“Eskom regrets to announce the implementation of Stage 2 load-shedding starting at 17:00 \u2014 22:00 this evening,” it said in a statement<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n “Due to the continued shortage of generation capacity, load-shedding will be implemented every evening at the same time until Thursday night.”<\/p>\n The announcement came after Eskom warned<\/a><\/strong> that the power grid was under pressure due to high demand.<\/p>\n The power utility has 5,232MW out on scheduled maintenance and 14,202MW unavailable due to breakdowns.<\/p>\n Eskom said it would closely monitor the system and inform the public of any changes.<\/p>\n It urged South African residents to use power sparingly and d to turn off non-essential appliances.<\/p>\n “We would like to remind the public that load-shedding is implemented only as a last resort to protect the national grid,” it said.<\/p>\n “We, therefore, urge all South Africans to continue using electricity sparingly, especially between 05:00 \u2014 09:00 in the mornings and 16:00 \u2014 22:00 in the evenings.”<\/p>\n Eskom said the power cuts will last until Thursday, 23 June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":427750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27995],"tags":[181,35,8487,29780],"class_list":["post-449490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-eskom","tag-headline","tag-load-shedding","tag-stage-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449500,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449490\/revisions\/449500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNow read: Our plan to fix load-shedding cannot work if government does not get us capacity \u2014 Eskom<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"