Stage 4 Eskom load shedding schedule

The power utility said the jump from Stage 2 happened at 07:20 after Majuba Unit 5 and Tutuka Unit 4 tripped. CEO André de Ruyter is also scheduled to brief the ...

Eskom initially started with overnight Stage 2 load shedding early last week, before more unit failures at various power stations led to full-time shedding until Friday morning. Stage 4 loadshedding will remain in force until 05:00 on Friday as Eskom works on returning units to service pic.twitter.com/bLot1ZHo4P April 19, 2022 Eskom has announced that load shedding which had jumped to Stage 4 on Tuesday morning after more generation units failed will remain in place until 05:00 Friday.

Load shedding News : Stage 4 loadshedding will remain in force until 05:00 on Friday as Eskom works on returning units to service Tuesday,

The power system remains unpredictable, and Eskom will continue to closely monitor the power system and promptly inform the public should there be any significant developments. Loadshedding is implemented only as a last resort to protect the national grid. Loadshedding will, regretfully, continue until 05:00 on Friday morning.

Eskom chief executive Andre De Ruyter says South Africa faces a bleak energy outlook, with load shedding expected to continue for much of the week.

- City of Ekurhuleni - City of Johannesburg He added that stage 6 load shedding is unlikely to occur this week.

'To ensure that we did not put the grid at risk and put SA at risk of a blackout': Rhulani Mathebula – GM, Eskom Generation.

However, our planning norm is 10 000MW, which is the one that is referred to as the best case. Currently, as I’m talking to you, we are sitting with about 5 000 megawatts (MW) that is on planned maintenance, with those units returning actually by the end of this month and the middle of the next month. RHULANI MATHEBULA: We have got a number of units that are planned to return [to service]. Actually, as of today we had planned to return three units, one at Camden, one at Tutuka and one at Arnot. All those machines have been returned. So the ‘best case’ scenario is experiencing 37 days of load shedding in this winter period, with the worst case scenario going up to 101 days. For our listeners who couldn’t listen to the briefing that Eskom held a little earlier – either because of work commitments or because they were at home with no power and couldn’t tune in – please help us understand how we got to this particular point in which we are at Stage 4 of load shedding. However, our service providers have also stepped up and they are assisting to make sure that we recover.

South Africans are currently experiencing stage four power cuts as the utility tries to return generating units to service.

South Africans are currently experiencing stage four power cuts as the utility tries to return generating units to service. South Africans are currently experiencing stage four power cuts as the utility tries to return generating units to service.

Eskom CEO André De Ruyter has assured the country that while the parastatal has implemented load shedding, South Africa is far from a total black out or ...

We are currently sitting at stage 4, the load shedding schedule provides for a further reduction in load as low as stage 8, of course we don’t want to go there.” We also rely on our major industrial customers to support us during that time and those customers are very much involved in the planning process, but we are quite a long way away from a total system blackout or a collapse.” “Of course, we need more capacity on the grid as urgently as we can to give us that additional safety margin that we need in order to cater for the unpredictability and unreliability of our generation system.”