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Varying stages of loadshedding for the weekend

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Eskom has announced that varying stages of loadshedding will be implemented for the weekend ahead, but the City has yet to announce its strategy for the weekend.

While Stage 3 loadshedding is currently underway until 16:00 on Thursday, it will increase to Stage 4 until 05:00 on Friday morning.

Eskom says loadshedding will be lowered to Stage 2 at 05:00 – 16:00 on Friday.

It is anticipated Stages 2 and 1 loadshedding will be implemented during the weekend.

City customers have also been on varying stages this week, and will continue to be on a see-saw of Stages this weekend.

The emergency generation reserves are almost depleted, both the diesel and pumped storage dam levels.

Eskom says these, together with persistent high levels of breakdowns of generating units, are among the major contributors to the continuing generation capacity shortages.

The power utility says it will publish a further update as soon as any significant changes occur.

Since Tuesday evening Eskom teams have returned a generating unit each at Duvha, Kendal and Medupi power stations to service.

Here is the Eskom loadshedding outlook for the rest of the week:

load shedding

To keep up to date with what the City of Cape Town is planning, visit capetown.gov.za.

Read more: Loadshedding hits small businesses hardest 

Liesl Smit
Liesl Smit
Liesl is the Smile 90.4FM News Manager. She has been at Smile since 2016, with nearly 20 years experience in the radio industry, including reading news, field reporting and producing. In 2008 she won the Vodacom Journalist of the Year Award, Western Cape region. liesl@smile904.fm

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