Staff Reporter.
Eskom announced that due to improved generation capacity availability and adequate emergency reserves, load shedding will be suspended from 12:00 midday today until 17:00.
Stage 2 load shedding will resume from 17:00 until 21:00 this evening. Thereafter, load shedding will be suspended again from 21:00 today until 16:00 on Sunday.
Eskom will publish the weekly outlook tomorrow afternoon and communicate should any significant changes occur.
The capacity out of service for planned maintenance is 7,321MW. Approximately 2,100MW of generating capacity is anticipated to return to service by Monday morning.
Given the sudden changes made to load shedding schedules over the past few weeks, South Africans should expect more changes as they happen.
For access to other load shedding schedules, Eskom has made them available on loadshedding.eskom.co.za.
Smartphone users can also download the app EskomSePush to receive push notifications when load shedding is implemented, as well as the times the area you are in will be off.