{"id":240915,"date":"2022-10-24T10:38:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T08:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/load-shedding-to-continue-until-wednesday-morning\/"},"modified":"2022-10-24T10:38:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T08:38:36","slug":"load-shedding-to-continue-until-wednesday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/load-shedding-to-continue-until-wednesday-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Load shedding to continue until Wednesday morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202210\/eskomsunsets_0.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Eskom says Stage 3 load shedding will be implemented between the hours of 5am and 4pm, thereafter increasing to Stage 4 until 5am on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>This after a tumultuous weekend for the power utility, where it was forced to implement load shedding despite, its suspension on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Eskom said its emergency generation reserves \u201care almost depleted\u201d and load shedding is required to build up these reserves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the weekend, the breakdown of a generating unit each at Duvha, Kriel and Medupi power stations, as well as the delayed returns of a generating unit each at Camden, Kusile, Komati and Kendal power stations have exacerbated current generation capacity shortages, forcing the escalation of load shedding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEskom will publish a further update as soon as any significant changes occur,\u201d the electricity supplier said.<\/p>\n<p>By Sunday afternoon, Eskom said although some units had returned to service, at least 14&nbsp;961MW of capacity unavailable due to breakdowns, with a further 6 004MW taken off for maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEskom teams have returned a generating unit each at Grootvlei, Hendrina, Majuba, Matla and Tutuka power stations to service. Load shedding is implemented only as a last resort in view of the shortage of generation capacity and the need to attend to breakdowns,\u201d it said. \u2013&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom says Stage 3 load shedding will be implemented between the hours of 5am and 4pm, thereafter increasing to Stage 4 until 5am on Wednesday morning. This after a tumultuous weekend for the power utility, where it was forced to implement load shedding despite, its suspension on Friday. Eskom said its emergency generation reserves \u201care [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":240916,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[38678],"class_list":{"0":"post-240915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-sanews","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/load-shedding-to-continue-until-wednesday-morning.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}