By Lehlohonolo Lehana.
Eskom has announced that it will reintroduce load shedding on Monday (7 March), due to multiple generating unit failures over the last 24 hours.
Stage 2 load shedding will be implemented from 21h00 tonight to 05h00 on Tuesday, and be repeated from 21h00 on Tuesday night until 05h00 on Wednesday, it said.
It added that these outages are necessary so that it can replenish its emergency reserves which had been depleted over the weekend.
It cautioned that further load shedding may be introduced at short notice if there are any significant breakdowns.
Eskom has warned in a summer load shedding forecast for 2021/2022, that its system is likely to remain severely constrained for the near future.
Further development to the #PowerAlert: Medupi Unit 3 broke down a short while ago. This requires Stage 2 loadshedding to be implemented continuously starting at 17:00 this afternoon until 05:00 on Wednesday. https://t.co/l1et1AKPdn
— Eskom Hld SOC Ltd (@Eskom_SA) March 7, 2022
For people living in the major metros, load shedding schedules are available here:
- City of Johannesburg
- City of Ekurhuleni
- City of Tshwane
- City of Cape Town (PDF)
- Nelson Mandela Bay
- eThekwini
- Manguang
- Buffalo City
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.