{"id":243914,"date":"2022-11-24T15:49:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T13:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/evening-load-shedding-reduced-to-stage-3\/"},"modified":"2022-11-24T15:49:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T13:49:01","slug":"evening-load-shedding-reduced-to-stage-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/evening-load-shedding-reduced-to-stage-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Evening load shedding reduced to Stage 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202211\/medupi_0.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Due to the diesel supplied by PetroSA this week, Eskom says it will now reduce load shedding during the night from Stage 4 to Stage 3 at 16:00 to 05:00 until Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan told Parliament on Wednesday that government has immediately made available 50 million litres of diesel to Eskom from state-owned oil company, PetroSA.<\/p>\n<p>However, according to the state-owned power entity, daytime power cuts will remain at Stage 2 from 05:00 to 16:00 daily until further notice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEskom will publish a further update as soon as there are any significant changes,\u201d Eskom said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe continued implementation of load shedding is mainly due to the high levels of breakdowns and the limited emergency generation reserves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since Wednesday afternoon, Eskom said, a generating unit each at Grootvlei, Kendal and Tutuka power stations was taken offline for repairs.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, four units at Camden Power Station have also been taken offline to repair a water leak on a line that supplies auxiliary cooling water, while generating unit at Hendrina Power Station was returned to service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThree units at Kusile Power Station are offline due to the duct (chimney structure) failure late in October and will remain offline for a few months while repairs to the chimney system take place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, unit 1 of Koeberg Nuclear Power Station will continue to generate a reduced output over the next three weeks as the fuel is ramped down ahead of the refuelling and maintenance outage scheduled to commence during December 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Eskom said it currently has 6 000MW on planned maintenance, while another 14 160MW of capacity is unavailable due to breakdowns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLoad shedding is implemented only as a last resort in view of the shortage of generation capacity and the need to attend to breakdowns.\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to the diesel supplied by PetroSA this week, Eskom says it will now reduce load shedding during the night from Stage 4 to Stage 3 at 16:00 to 05:00 until Monday morning. 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