WHILE the rest of the country will endure stage 2 load shedding from 5pm Tuesday afternoon until early next week, users who receive their electricity directly from the City of Cape Town are set to receive some sort of reprieve.
The City will implement stage 1 load shedding from 6pm Tuesday until 10pm, then stage 2 until 6am Wednesday.
Thereafter stage 1 from 6am Wednesday morning until 10pm.
Eskom this afternoon announced stage 2 load shedding will be implemented from 5pm and continue until 5am on Monday.
“This load shedding has been caused by a shortage of generation capacity owing to delays in returning generators to service, as well as breakdowns of nine generators,” said Eskom’s spokesperson Sikonathi Mantshantsha.
The Mother City recently launched its new load shedding app.
“As we work to end blackouts over time in Cape Town, load shedding schedules for city customers are likely to become more complex, with different stages at different times of the day,” said mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis shortly after the app was launched.
“Our app will allow residents to access the most accurate information about load shedding, allowing them to plan their lives We want Capetonians to experience the minimum amount of inconvenience from Eskom’s generation failures while we work to make load-shedding a thing of the past.”
Weekend Argus previously reported that the City is engaging with the power utility on how Eskom customers can be transferred to the City’s grid. This involves plans to purchase some of the utility’s infrastructure to enable such a move.
Hill-Lewis, at the time, stressed that talks were at “a very early stage”.