City of Cape Town confirms GOOD load shedding news for Wednesday: Here’s the UPDATED schedule

Those who receive their electricity from the City of Cape Town will enjoy some relief on Wednesday compared to Eskom customers.

Sep 27, 2022 - 14:12
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City of Cape Town confirms GOOD load shedding news for Wednesday: Here’s the UPDATED schedule

Power utility Eskom on Sunday published its load shedding schedule for the week – and, no surprise, it wasn’t great news!

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Eskom confirmed that Stage 3 load shedding will continue to be implemented between 00:00 and 16:00 until Thursday, 29 September, while Stage 4 load shedding will be implemented daily during the evening peaks from 16:00 until 00:00.

A further update will be published on Wednesday, 28 September – or as soon as there are any significant changes, Eskom confirmed.

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“Eskom is still experiencing constraints from its diesel suppliers that is affecting the availability of bulk diesel to the Ankerlig and Gourikwa Open Cycle Gas Turbines, which have a combined capacity of 2,000MW.

“While we expect diesel deliveries from Tuesday onwards, should this uncertainty of supply persist, higher stages of load shedding may be required,” it said.

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However, those who receive their electricity from the City of Cape Town will enjoy some relief after it confirmed its rolling daily plan for Tuesday and Wednesday.

While Eskom customers will be on Stages 3 and 4, City of Cape Town residents will on Wednesday ‘only’ suffer Stage 1 and 2 outages.

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Tuesday, 27 September
Stage 1: 05:00 – 16:00
Stage 3: 16:00 – 05:00 on Wednesday

Wednesday, 28 September
Stage 1: 06:00 – 16:00
Stage 2: 16:00 – 00:00

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For people living in the major metros, load shedding schedules are available below: