More breakdowns continues loadshedding until Friday

Friday at 10pm is when loadshedding stage 2 is set to end, Eskom said yesterday.

Stage 2 officially starts today (Wednesday) at 10am – this follows several further breakdowns at a number of power stations.

Again, this issue is exacerbated by Eskom’s failure to return units to service on time.

Relying on emergency reserves to supply the demand over the past few days has also seen the state-owned utility crippled.

“Breakdown currently total 13 601MW of capacity, while another 1 330MW is unavailable due to planned maintenance,” the utility provider said.

Eskom said its teams were working hard to return generation units to service, as well as to replenish emergency reserves.

Here are your times:

Wednesday:

Ballito Southern Grid (Tinley Manor to Ballito & Zimbali): Not affected

Stanger Northern Grid (Tinley Manor to Zinkwazi): 8-10.30pm

Mandini: Not affected

Tongaat Central: 10pm to midnight

Tongaat Beach: 10pm to midnight

Thursday:

Ballito Southern Grid (Tinley Manor to Ballito & Zimbali): 4-6am | Midday to 2.30pm

Stanger Northern Grid (Tinley Manor to Zinkwazi): 4-6.30am

Mandini: 6-8.30am | 2-4.30pm

Tongaat Central: 10am to midday | 10pm to midnight

Tongaat Beach: 10am to midday | 10pm to midnight

Friday:

Ballito Southern Grid (Tinley Manor to Ballito & Zimbali):

Stanger Northern Grid (Tinley Manor to Zinkwazi): 4-6.30am | Midday to 2.30pm

Mandini: 2-4.30pm 

Tongaat Central: 8-10pm

Tongaat Beach: 8-10pm