Load shedding extended to Saturday

Stage 2 load shedding will be implemented continuously from Tuesday afternoon to Saturday, Eskom announced.

In a statement, the power utility said many of the power plant units broke down across the country over the weekend.

Eskom’s group chief operating officer Jan Oberholzer said the unit failures were coupled by Medupi trip on Monday.

“Just before 16:00 yesterday, Medupi 3 tripped. The load loss increased further by 500MW resulting in the complete insufficient capacity to meet the evening peak. The total loss at that stage was 4500MW.

“We had to implement stage 2 load shedding at a very short period yesterday afternoon,” he said.

By Tuesday morning, the total breakdowns amount to 16 505MW while planned maintenance is 5 505MW of capacity.

Due to the unreliability and unpredictability of the generators, Oberholzer said the power utility had no choice but to extend to load shedding to Saturday.

Please have a look at the load shedding schedule for Tuesday;

Stage 2 #LoadShedding 08/03/2022

00h00-02h30 Group 6, 10
02h00-04h30 Group 7, 11
04h00-06h30 Group 8, 12
06h00-08h30 Group 9, 13
08h00-10h30 Group 10, 14
10h00-12h30 Group 11, 15
12h00-14h30 Group 12, 16
14h00-16h30 Group 13, 1
16h00-18h30 Group 14, 2

— City of Tshwane (@CityTshwane) March 7, 2022

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