{"id":477389,"date":"2023-01-23T15:42:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T13:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=477389"},"modified":"2023-01-23T15:51:14","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T13:51:14","slug":"eskom-updates-load-shedding-timetable-after-breakdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/energy\/477389-eskom-updates-load-shedding-timetable-after-breakdowns.html","title":{"rendered":"Eskom updates load-shedding timetable after breakdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eskom has announced that it will maintain a schedule of stage 3 day-time load-shedding and stage 4 power cuts in the evenings until further notice.<\/p>\n

As has become standard, the daytime schedule runs from 05:00 to 16:00 and the evening timeslot is 16:00 to 05:00 the following morning.<\/p>\n

“Over the past 24 hours, two generating units at Tutuka Power Station were taken offline for repairs while two units at the Arnot Power were returned to service,” Eskom reported.<\/p>\n

The state-owned power utility currently has 6,018MW offline for planned maintenance while breakdowns amount to 15,797MW of generating capacity.<\/p>\n

“A further update will be published as soon as any significant changes occur,” Eskom stated.<\/p>\n

“Eskom requests members of the public to continue assisting by reducing the usage and to sparingly use electricity.”<\/p>\n

The timetable may be summarised as follows:<\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Load-shedding schedule for 23\u201327 January 2023<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Date<\/th>\nDay<\/th>\nDay-time (05:00\u201316:00)<\/th>\nEvening (16:00\u201305:00)<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
23 January 2023<\/td>\nMonday<\/td>\nStage 3<\/td>\nStage 4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
24 January 2023<\/td>\nTuesday<\/td>\nStage 3<\/td>\nStage 4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
25 January 2023<\/td>\nWednesday<\/td>\nStage 3<\/td>\nStage 4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
26 January 2023<\/td>\nThursday<\/td>\nStage 3<\/td>\nStage 4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
27 January 2023<\/td>\nFriday<\/td>\nStage 3<\/td>\nStage 4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Eskom\u2019s power station general manager Thomas Conradie said during a media briefing on Monday that they hoped to reduce load-shedding to stage 1 and stage 3 this week.<\/p>\n

However, he also said\u00a0it would depend on units returning to service and Eskom not incurring further losses.<\/p>\n

“Eskom is experiencing very high levels of plant unreliability and forced outages currently,\u201d Conradie said.<\/p>\n

\u201cA number of large generating units are off for an extended period contributing to the higher plant unavailability and loss of generating capacity.”<\/p>\n

Eskom chair Mpho Makwana said on Sunday that South Africa should expect two years of permanent load-shedding<\/a><\/strong> while the power utility works to improve its energy availability factor (EAF).<\/p>\n

“The global average for EAF is about 86%. We\u2019re looking to grow from our current 58% EAF to 70% in the next two years,” said Makwana.<\/p>\n

Makwana said they hoped to keep the stages fixed between stage 2 and stage 3.<\/p>\n

“We want to create some predictability,\u201d Makwana said. \u201cShuttling from one stage to the other is never good.”<\/p>\n

However, outgoing Eskom CEO Andr\u00e9 de Ruyter later clarified that the power utility could not commit to a specific load-shedding schedule.<\/p>\n

Higher stages might sometimes be necessary, and if Eskom\u2019s generating unit breakdown situation improves, lower stages could be possible.<\/p>\n

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Now read:\u00a0Eskom office’s power cut for failing to pay R500,000 electricity bill<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So much for Eskom’s plan to further reduce load-shedding this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":421622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27995],"tags":[181,35,51867,81715,82703],"class_list":["post-477389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-eskom","tag-headline","tag-loadshedding","tag-mpho-makwana","tag-thomas-conradie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477389"}],"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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477391,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477389\/revisions\/477391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}