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Almeda Mithani
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I'm trying to set up my home server to shut itself down 5 minutes before loadshedding is supposed to hit, but all the apps and services I've found so far will only output the schedules either internally or as a notification, which doesn't really help me in my quest.
I am slowly migrating to HASS from OpenHAB and was wondering how to get the loadshedding into Home Assistant. Was thinking of migrating my solution from OpenHAB or installing the integration when I discovered this quite simple way:
Using GitHub - wernerhp/ha.integration.load_shedding: A Home Assistant integration to track your load schedding schedule. (sure it uses an api key), you get a calendar that is dynamically updated with actual slots you will have instead of a calendar with all slots. You also get all the stages, including the cape town changes.
"The schedule will continue to be implemented as previously communicated. Eskom will continue monitoring the power system closely, adjust and communicate the stages of load shedding as required," Eskom.
This means load shedding will remain suspended overnight on Saturday, until 16:00 on Sunday. However, rugby fans are not quite off the hook yet, as Stage 2 will kick in from 16:00 on Sunday until 05:00 Monday, as previously scheduled.
Power utility Eskom said on Wednesday afternoon that due to a stable electricity supply and generation performance the current pattern where loadshedding is suspended from 05:00 will continue until further notice.
For ease of understanding, and to follow the tabulated load shedding schedule, customers need to combine the day of the month with the start and end times of the set stage to determine if their area will be loadshed, and the duration thereof.
EEC prepares a monthly schedule that serves as a guide to managing load reduction. While the schedule shows daily load reduction plans for the morning, afternoon and evening hours, electricity usage usually peaks in the evening and early morning hours. It rarely happens in the afternoon and on weekends. The schedule is then a tentative plan of how the load will be reduced should the need arise at any time of the day. In rare cases where the targeted areas are not adequate to relieve the system, more are added, and these are also part of the schedule.
It is important for customers to have a copy of the schedule and to report outages in areas not listed. Power cuts that are not a result of loadshedding can be reported on our 24-hour Call Centre.
EEC has managed to use its internal generation to mitigate the effects of load shedding that would have affected the country. However, in the event the situation demands further load reduction, EEC will implement its loadshedding plan.
Eskom said due to stable generation capacity with breakdowns at 13 158MW and planned maintenance at 6 051MW of generation capacity, loadshedding will remain suspended today until 4pm on Monday. Thereafter, Stage 2 loadshedding will be implemented from 4pm until 5am on Tuesday.
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