Residents started experiencing load shedding past 5 p.m. Thursday. Much earlier, the GPA communications office announced that with multiple power plants operating at limited capacity or offline ...

For more financial news, visit the News24 Business front page. Eskom will implement Stage 2 load shedding during evening peak periods from Tuesday at 16:00 until 22:00 on Thursday to ensure supply ...

At the peak of load shedding last November, GPA saw 274 hours of outages in total, data shared by the GM shows. The average feeder serving different parts of the island was out for 5.7 hours.

If outages increase to 15GW, load shedding would be limited to a maximum of 21 days out of 153 days at stage 2 — an improvement of the previous winter’s worst-case prediction of stage 5 load ...

Eskom has added 2 500MW of generation capacity ahead of winter 2025 through the return of Koeberg Unit 2, Kusile Unit 6, and Medupi Unit 4, improving the structural position compared to winter 2024.

Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa remains hopeful for a load-shedding-free winter despite current power cuts, citing increased grid capacity. May 14, 2025 SAnews.gov.za 2 minutes read ...

Power utility Eskom has announced that Stage 2 will be implemented on Tuesday evening, running through to Thursday. Load shedding will start at 16h00 on Tuesday, 13 May, and be in effect over the ...

This means that load-shedding remains a reality in South Africa and can occur at short notice, as recent weeks have demonstrated. Eskom also did not conclude its Generation Recovery Plan by 31 ...

During load shedding, PLCs and OT systems often fail, not because they are directly tied to the factory’s core manufacturing process, but because they are now an integral part of IT infrastructure.

Eskom has told MyBroadband that missing the aggregate uptime targets for its power stations was not the main reason it had to bring back load-shedding in 2025. “Although load-shedding occurred ...

Eskom announced it would be implementing Stage 2 load shedding during evening peak periods from Tuesday from 4pm to 10pm until Thursday. The power utility said this was necessary in order to ...

South Africans should prepare for another round of load shedding, with Eskom announcing Stage 2 will be implemented from 4 pm on Tuesday until 10 pm on Thursday, 15 May.