{"id":250461,"date":"2023-02-19T14:33:08","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T12:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/stage-6-load-shedding-returns-on-sunday-evening\/"},"modified":"2023-02-19T14:33:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T12:33:08","slug":"stage-6-load-shedding-returns-on-sunday-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/stage-6-load-shedding-returns-on-sunday-evening\/","title":{"rendered":"Stage 6 load shedding returns on Sunday evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202302\/eskom.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Eskom will on Sunday evening from 8pm ramp up load shedding to Stage 6, the power utility confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>This was after Eskom on Saturday warned of the possibility.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the power utility said: \u201cStage 4 load shedding will continue to be implemented until further notice while Stage 6 will be implemented at 8pm on Sunday night until 5am on Monday morning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eskom the need to implement Stage 6 was necessitated by the high amount of breakdowns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a possibility of further changes on the stages of load shedding at short notice.&nbsp;A further update will be published as soon as any significant changes occur,\u201d reads the statement.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past 24 hours, a generating unit each at Camden, Duvha and Lethabo power stations suffered breakdowns and were taken offline for repairs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe return to service of two generating units at Drakensberg and a unit each at Kendal and Tutuka power stations are delayed,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>Eskom said two generating units at Lethabo Power Station were returned to service during the period.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBreakdowns currently amount to 19 385MW of generating capacity while 3 566W of generating capacity is out of service for planned maintenance,\u201d the statement reads. \u2013&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom will on Sunday evening from 8pm ramp up load shedding to Stage 6, the power utility confirmed. This was after Eskom on Saturday warned of the possibility. In a statement, the power utility said: \u201cStage 4 load shedding will continue to be implemented until further notice while Stage 6 will be implemented at 8pm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":250462,"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-250461","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\/2023\/02\/stage-6-load-shedding-returns-on-sunday-evening.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250461","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=250461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}