Cape Town Loadshedding Schedules For Christmas Day & New Year’s Eve 2022
Looking ahead to Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve and what loadshedding times you might have in store for you if you’re in Cape Town
Looking ahead to Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve and what loadshedding times you might have in store for you if you’re in Cape Town
Yes, all of loadshedding is annoying, but as George Orwell once stated: Some slots are more annoying than others. An amazingly prescient (and suspiciously specific) man. Anyone who has experienced rolling blackouts will be in agreement with this and, since several (or more) of the Northern Hemisphere countries are about to give it a go, […]
Indeed. So let’s add the USA to the ever-lengthening list of loadshedders and near misses: Dear old SASwitzerlandUKChina (including Shanghai)AustraliaFinlandUSAWe’re currently (no pun intended) in the middle of a 4 day Stage 2 sesh here, due to breakdowns at six different power stations (including Koeberg), and a late return to service for another unit at […]
…this time not in the UK or Australia, and not (holds thumbs, crosses fingers, whispers quiet prayer) in South Africa, either. Nope – this time, it’s Shanghai and Chengdu in China. Uh-oh. That sounds familiar. I completely sympathise with the people in these cities: loadshedding is a complete pain in the butt, but once again, […]
An occasional series in which I endeavour to provide answers to all your queries about the lack of electricity in South Africa at the moment. Today’s question comes from Confused of Cape Town: Do you get loadshedding on board ships? No. You don’t. Loadshedding is thankfully limited to things which are attached to Eskom’s national […]