Eskom has firmed up a plan to implement load shedding in Johannesburg in two-hour blocks, instead of the current four-hour interruptions, with effect from 19 January.
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Residents and businesses in Johannesburg may soon find load-shedding times reduced from the current four-hour blocks, to the two-hour blocks imposed elsewhere in South Africa.
City Power, which distributes electricity to large parts of Johannesburg, wants be less reliant on Eskom in light of how intermittent load shedding and the rising cost of electricity have affected it.
South Africa’s state power company intensified rolling blackouts to a record, signalling a deepening crisis at the debt-ridden utility and raising the risk of a second recession in as many years.
The City of Johannesburg said on Friday that it has detected a “network breach”, which resulted in unauthorised access to its information systems.
Eskom said on Wednesday that it will implement stage-2 load shedding from 9am on Wednesday, with outages likely to continue until 11pm.
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City Power, which provides electricity to the City of Johannesburg, has been hit by a ransomware virus that has crippled its systems.
A new fixed surcharge of R200/month means that City of Johannesburg residents who use prepaid electricity will see actual increases of up to 66% in the cost of power from this month.