Load-shedding was suspended on Thursday but Eskom is already working hard to make sure there are no blackouts come election day next month, and over Christmas. Speaking to eNCA this week, its CEO Andre de Ruyter admitted that the power…
Municipal electrical distribution systems are not designed for load shedding conditions. The design relies on randomly spread loads and infrequent switching for maintenance, fault finding, etc. During Load Shedding switching happens up to…
Load-shedding will kick in from 9pm on Tuesday night, embattled power utility Eskom announced. The stage 2 rotational power failures will last until 5am on Wednesday, Eskom said in a statement. This was due to a “shortage of generating…
SA’s economy was likely to weaken further if there was no reliable supply of electricity, finance minister Tito Mboweni conceded on Thursday. This comes after Eskom warned citizens to brace themselves for another five years of…
SA’s long-suffering citizens should brace themselves for another five years of load-shedding as Eskom struggles to keep its ailing coal-fired power stations on the boil. This is thanks to an estimated 4,000MW shortfall in the amount of…
Eskom is projecting an energy shortfall of up to 6,000 megawatts in the next five years, which means load-shedding appears far from over. President Cyril Ramaphosa said this on Thursday during his state of the nation address. Ramaphosa…
Eskom has announced that stage 3 load-shedding will be implemented from 13:00 on Wednesday until 6am Thursday morning. Find your local load-shedding schedule here:
Eskom has announced that stage 2 load-shedding will be implemented from 10pm on Tuesday until 5am Wednesday morning. Find your local load-shedding schedule here:
Load-shedding will end at 11pm on Monday, power utility Eskom said. However, it warned that the electricity network was “vulnerable and unpredictable”. “Eskom is pleased to inform the public that load-shedding will be suspended from 11pm…
South Africa is in for another round of loadshedding and, this time, we are in it for the long-haul Esom spokesperson, Sikonathi Mantshantsha explained in TV interviews over the weekend. Stage 2 loadshedding is anticipated for the…
Eskom suspended load-shedding on Friday, saying the demand for electricity had dropped before the weekend. This comes after the energy supplier had announced two nights of load-shedding on Wednesday and Thursday. The utility is asking…
The first round of load-shedding for 2021 will kick in at 10pm on Wednesday. Eskom announced it would implement stage 2 load-shedding from 10pm on Wednesday until 5am on Thursday morning. The same would be repeated on Thursday.…
Power utility Eskom said on Friday night that stage 2 load-shedding would be implemented from 6am to 11pm on Saturday. The rotational power cuts would continue on Sunday, though the stage has not yet been confirmed — with the “system…
Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter says the current round of rolling blackouts will ease this week – but the power utility has conceded that load-shedding will not go away. “Load-shedding is a phenomenon that has unfortunately been part of SA for…
SA’s electricity generation system is severely constrained after two generation units tripped, Eskom has reported. In a statement, Eskom asked the public to use electricity sparingly after the units tripped on Tuesday evening. “We lost a…
