{"id":523476,"date":"2024-02-01T07:40:45","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T05:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=523476"},"modified":"2024-02-01T07:47:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T05:47:22","slug":"eskom-increases-power-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/energy\/523476-eskom-increases-power-cuts.html","title":{"rendered":"Eskom increases power cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eskom has announced that stage 3 load-shedding will continue to be implemented until further notice.<\/p>\n

The power utility previously planned to drop load-shedding to stage 2 at 05:00 each morning for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n

“Due to the need to replenish emergency reserves and insufficient available generation capacity, stage 3 load-shedding will continue to be implemented until further notice,” Eskom said.<\/p>\n

Eskom’s previous load-shedding schedule<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 announced on Monday, 29 November 2023 \u2014 saw a rotation of stage 2 load-shedding from 05:00 to 16:00 each day and stage 3 from 16:00 to 05:00.<\/p>\n

The power utility was forced to implement the load-shedding pattern after it took five generating units offline for repairs.<\/p>\n

“Over the past 24 hours, five generation units were taken offline for repairs,” Eskom said in a statement on Monday.<\/p>\n

“Additionally, the return to service of two generating units that were on planned maintenance was delayed due to an opportunity to perform preventative maintenance.”<\/p>\n

The power utility had a total of 23,994MW of generation capacity offline at the time \u2014 almost 2,500MW less than the anticipated evening peak for Monday.<\/p>\n

“Unplanned outages are at 16,473MW of generating capacity, while the capacity out of service for planned maintenance is at 7,521MW,” it said.<\/p>\n

“Eskom’s load forecast for the evening peak demand tonight is 26,411MW.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eskom said the load-shedding increase was necessary as it didn’t have sufficient generation capacity and needed to replenish its emergency reserves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":441748,"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":[181,35,8487,70159],"class_list":["post-523476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-eskom","tag-headline","tag-load-shedding","tag-stage-3-load-shedding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523476"}],"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=523476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}