Stage 6 Eskom load shedding schedule

2022 - 6 - 30

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How the City of Cape Town managed to avoid Stage 6 load ... (Daily Maverick)

While the rest of South Africa is being hit with Stage 6 load shedding, the City of Cape Town has offered some relief to its residents through the use of ...

I mean, the guy who spends billions of rands building an IPP plant wants to know that the company is going to buy this and that they’re creditworthy to the extent that they’ll get paid for the electricity at the end of the month,” Yelland said. Yelland said the City of Cape Town has now put out tenders for IPP energy. “A coal power station, like in Johannesburg’s Kelvin Power Station (the City of Johannesburg gets about 10% of its power from the station), you can’t switch on 200MW at the flick of a switch. You have to start up a boiler, fire up the boiler and get the water boiling at the right temperature, the steam pressure up. It is also technically possible to accomplish this using other modes of supply if reasonably priced,” said Van Reenen. She added that the city was looking at storage facilities for independent generation additions. “When electricity usage is low — usually between 11pm and 7am — the turbines pump the water back to the upper Steenbras reservoir to be reused the next day.

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Eskom updates stage 6 load shedding – here is the new schedule (BusinessTech)

Eskom says it has seen some recovery in replenishing its emergency reserves, but will still need to introduce stage 6 load shedding for parts of Friday.

Overnight we have replenished our emergency reserves sufficiently to not require Stage 6 Loadshedding during the morning. Eskom is compelled to take this unprecedented step to conserve emergency generation capacity to safeguard the power system.” This has made it difficult to conduct routine maintenance and other operational requirements, which will further impact the reliability of generation units,” it said on Thursday.

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Eskom extends Stage 6 load shedding (Moneyweb.co.za)

As many employees fail to report to work, despite calls by unions for them to do so.

Owing to the illegal and unprotected wage strike – which began on 22 June – Eskom says there has been widespread disruption to its power plants, and it is still unable to return some generators to service, adding that the load shedding escalation is the only option it has to protect its systems. According to the power utility, the workers who are reporting to work continue to face intimidation from disgruntled Eskom employees, despite the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa), the National Union of Mineworkers (Num) and Minister of Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan calling for their return to work on Tuesday. Read: No protest planned at Eskom’s head office on Friday, says Numsa Gordhan hopes all Eskom staff will return to work, as wage negotiations resume Growthpoint struggles to secure diesel amid load shedding

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Eskom announces all-day stage 6 load-shedding — with bad news ... (MyBroadband)

Eskom is continuing to struggle to get workers to return to plants. Here is the utility's load-shedding forecast for the next few days.

- Friday, 1 July 2022, 05:00-00:00 — Stage 6 - Friday, 1 July 2022, 00:00-05:00 — Stage 4 - Thursday, 30 June 2022, 14:00-00:00 — Stage 6

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Eskom implements stage 6 load shedding, blames ongoing wage ... (Jacaranda FM)

The embattled power utility reduced power cuts to stage 4 just after midnight on Thursday. Eskom spokesperson Sikonathi Mantshantsha says the high levels of ...

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South Africa's Eskom Extends Record Power Cuts to Fourth Day (Bloomberg)

South Africa's state-owned electricity utility Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. will extend the worst blackouts on record to a fourth day as the firm struggles to ...

South Africa’s state-owned electricity utility Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. will extend the worst blackouts on record to a fourth day as the firm struggles to recover from a strike that prevented as many as 90% of staff at some power plants from going to work.

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Eskom implements Stage 4 load shedding until 4pm (Independent Online)

Slight relief for South Africans as Eskom announces a move to Stage 4 load shedding.

The reason given for this drastic load shedding stage was due to the continued unlawful strike by its employees. This came after Eskom announced the Stage 6 load shedding schedule to be implemented on Thursday through to Friday. “Overnight we have replenished our emergency reserves sufficiently to not require Stage 6 load shedding during the morning.

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Eskom revises load shedding schedule, stage 6 off the grid for now (Citizen)

Eskom says due to lower than anticipated demand, stage 4 load shedding will continue to be implemented until 10pm.

We will communicate and implement any changes as may be necessary.” He said between 10pm and 7am on both Saturday and Sunday, load shedding will be on stage 2. “Friday, 01 July 2022: Due to lower than anticipated demand, load shedding will continue to be implemented at stage 4 until 22:00 tonight, (previously Stage 6). Load shedding will then be lowered to stage 2 until 07:00 on Saturday morning.

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