{"id":257153,"date":"2023-04-12T11:43:29","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T09:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/load-shedding-moved-to-stage-5\/"},"modified":"2023-04-12T11:43:29","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T09:43:29","slug":"load-shedding-moved-to-stage-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/load-shedding-moved-to-stage-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Load shedding moved to Stage 5"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Stage 5 load shedding will now be implemented throughout the day until further notice.<\/p>\n

This was announced by State power utility Eskom following an increase in demand.<\/p>\n

Eskom had ramped up load shedding to Stages 3 and 5 on Monday after delays in return to service and breakdowns at power stations caused further constraints to the power grid.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Minister in the Presidency for Electricity, Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, has warned that the power grid is expected to come under increased pressure as demand soars over the winter period.<\/p>\n

The Minister was speaking in Tshwane on Tuesday afternoon following an outage in the Pretoria East area due to vandalism.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a very difficult winter. We know that in summer conditions, the electricity deficit is 6 000MW and we know that when we go into winter, the peak demand can go up to 37 000MW. That is… significantly more… So it\u2019s important that we do our part. But at the current rate of trips and failures, it\u2019s going to be an exceptionally difficult winter.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe projection going into the following summer period when we bring\u2026 Kusile Power Station\u2019s 3 000MW back and some of the initiatives that require two to three months to kick in… [that leaves us] confident that going beyond winter, we have everything within our arsenal to resolve this load shedding.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are doing everything possible to make sure that we don\u2019t go beyond Stage 6,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The Minister acknowledged that Eskom\u2019s power stations face a challenge of unreliability, which is \u201cundermining our ability to sustain generation\u201d and stave off load shedding.<\/p>\n

Ramokgopa emphasised, however, that South Africans can help the cause by using electricity efficiently, leading to lower demand.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not just focusing on the generation side. There has to be a lot of effort that we are making on the demand side. There\u2019s a lot that we can do to bring down demand without compromising our ability to meet our daily requirements as we go about life and of course, commerce.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will be coming out very aggressively and also introducing some of the latest technology to help us reduce the demand side. Once you reduce the demand side, you are able to close the deficit and essentially undermine the potential of going to higher stages of load shedding,\u201d he said. \u2013 SAnews.gov.za <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stage 5 load shedding will now be implemented throughout the day until further notice. This was announced by State power utility Eskom following an increase in demand. Eskom had ramped up load shedding to Stages 3 and 5 on Monday after delays in return to service and breakdowns at power stations caused further constraints to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":257154,"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-257153","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\/04\/load-shedding-moved-to-stage-5.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257153","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=257153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}