The major change is that Eskom's new load shedding now runs across 32-hour cycles, not a typical 24-hour one.
The current Stage 1, on a high-demand day, could be Stage 2 in future.Officially, at least, there are now 16 stages of load shedding – up from the previous eight under the previous code. Eskom has not yet publicly announced this, but the new Code of Practice has reportedly been approved by the National Energy Regulator of South Africa . ALSO READ:
The second major change is that Stage 1 is no longer equivalent to 1 000MW. Rather, it equates to 5% of demand.This is arguably a bigger problem. Stage 1 on a Tuesday or Wednesday will be quite different from Stage 1 on a Sunday. In effect, Stage 1 on the weekend is currently ‘less severe’ than during the week in terms of pure megawatts reduced from the grid. In the future, once this is implemented, the stage of load shedding will be directly linked to the demand for that day.
The industry will be comfortable with the fact that at least there is now a plan beyond Stage 8. Currently, this is “manual instruction” implemented by the System Operator to reduce load.At least we now know that at Stage 16, residential and commercial customers will have zero power. Or the euphemistically titled ‘power off’. The only supply at that point will be to “essential loads”.
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