Recently, South Africa suffered a serious power supply crisis, with at least 11 generating units at coal-fired power plants failing last week, forcing the South African National Electricity Corporation to start six-level power restrictions again. After several weeks of Stage VI blackouts, South Africa's Finance Minister Gordon Guana revealed that the government is planning to improve the power supply with the goal of ending the power crisis within the next 12 to 18 months. The so-called Stage 6 power restrictions will be lifted in about five months through the renovation of power generation facilities and the entry into force of related management measures.
Load Shedding Notifier is a free app for Android published in the System Maintenance list of apps, part of System Utilities. This app can monitor the current load-shedding status of Eskom and will notify you if there is a planned power outage in your area.
If your city is not included, please send an email to [email protected] to get it added. Key features: Real-time Eskom load shedding status monitoring.
If your city is an Eskom customer, you can check your schedule on the Eskom website by typing the name of your area. You can visit the website, or call them, or follow them on Twitter to get the information.
