The City of Cape Town has indicated that residents will be facing Stage 2 loadshedding on Wednesday, November 10 from 6 am to 10 pm, thereafter stage 3 will be implemented from 10 pm until 5 am the next day.
This comes after Eskom announced in a statement on Tuesday that emergency generation reserves have shown significant progress over the past two days, therefore, load shedding will be reduced to Stage 3 from 05:00 on Wednesday 10 November until 05:00 on Friday.
“Stage 2 load shedding will continue as previously communicated until 05:00 on Saturday 13 November. It is necessary to continue with load shedding in order to fully replenish the emergency generation reserves.
“Total breakdowns currently amount to 12 709MW while planned maintenance is 6 164MW of capacity,” the statement said.
Load-shedding update
Eskom’s load-shedding changed to Stage 3 until 05:00 12/11/2021.
10/11/2021:
Stage 2: 06:00 – 22:00
Stage 3: 22:00 – 05:0011/11/2021:
Stage 2: 06:00 – 22:00
Stage 3: 22:00 – 05:0012/11/2021:
Stage 2: 06:00 – 22:00
Stage 3: 22:00 – 05:00#CTInfo pic.twitter.com/jltQ1mat6T— City of Cape Town (@CityofCT) November 10, 2021
Meanwhile, Eskom’s Chief Executive André De Ruyter said in his media address on Tuesday that the power utility welcomes the announcement of the preferred bidders of the renewable energy independent power producer procurement programme as this can help address the capacity challenge. However, there is a lack of capacity in the country as between 4 000 MW and 6 000 MW of capacity needs to be added to the grid as quickly as possible, De Ruyter said.
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