{"id":251240,"date":"2023-02-27T10:53:44","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T08:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/stage-3-load-shedding-to-be-implemented-from-tuesday\/"},"modified":"2023-02-27T10:53:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T08:53:44","slug":"stage-3-load-shedding-to-be-implemented-from-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/stage-3-load-shedding-to-be-implemented-from-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Stage 3 load shedding to be implemented from Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202302\/loadshedding_0.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Load shedding is expected to be reduced to Stage 3 from 5am Tuesday morning following the return to service of several power generating units over the course of the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The country experienced Stage 6 and Stage 5 load shedding last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLoad shedding will then be reduced to Stage 3 at 5am to 4pm on both Tuesday and Wednesday, while Stage 4 will be implemented during 4pm to 5am on both Tuesday and Wednesday. Eskom will publish another update as soon as any significant changes occur,\u201d the power utility said.<\/p>\n<p>By Sunday evening, Eskom was battling some breakdowns amounting to 16&nbsp;870MW with a further 4757MW offline due to maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the past 24 hours, a generating unit each at the Arnot, Grootvlei, Kendal, Medupi and Tutuka power stations were returned to service. Breakdowns at a unit each at Camden, Majuba and Matimba power stations caused units to be taken offline for repairs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe delay in returning a unit each to service at Arnot, Hendrina, Kendal, Medupi and Tutuka power stations are contributing to the current capacity constraints,\u201d Eskom said.<\/p>\n<p>Added to that, the power utility said it is also battling unavailability from its energy sources in Mozambique and the open cycle gas turbines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cElectricity imports from the Cahora Bassa Hydro Scheme in Mozambique have been halved to 600MW due to a tower failure on one of the lines from that country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFour open cycle gas turbines at Ankerlig peaking station are out of service until 15 March 2023 for planned maintenance,\u201d said the power utility. \u2013&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Load shedding is expected to be reduced to Stage 3 from 5am Tuesday morning following the return to service of several power generating units over the course of the weekend. The country experienced Stage 6 and Stage 5 load shedding last week. \u201cLoad shedding will then be reduced to Stage 3 at 5am to 4pm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":251241,"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-251240","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-3-load-shedding-to-be-implemented-from-tuesday.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251240","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=251240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}