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As is blatantly clear to all, there are major cost recovery issues for electrical supply in the townships.
Issues run from outright theft, non-payment, vandalism, failures due to oversupply etc.
How is Eskom dealing with this?
Eskom started a pilot project to redo Benoni and Nigel Townships - they decided to rebuild the network there to solve the payment, theft and vandalism issues. Its ongoing, but shows what can be done.
The townships encompass roughly 162,000 consumers. Existing infrastructure is extremely dangerous (mostly due to end users cheating the system..), and the losses there are allegedly the highest in the region, which made this a suitable pilot project.
Eskom did an initial feasibility study and found that:
40% of substations were overloaded.
12.5% of meters were illegally bypassed.
61% were labelled incorrectly.
38% of substations were vandalised.
35% of substations were open to access.
Financial Losses for electricity electricity used / vs income ranged from 10 - 50% loss due to theft / vandalism a month, depending on area.
Eskoms solutions was to initially repair the safety issues, then to replace equipment and secure from tampering / vandalism in a phased approach. That worked, and they managed to reduce non-technical losses (i.e. theft/vandalism) from 47% to 8%!
Eskom estimates that income will increase by 55% once completely implemented.
This can and should be rolled out to other townships (Soweto would be a prime candidate).
Eskom can and should be informing consumers of what its doing.
I consider this good news from the parastatal, and a sign that not everything is falling apart.
Its a shame that documentation like this is hidden away...
Full document here -
https://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/2...e&show_recommendations=false&view_mode=scroll
Issues run from outright theft, non-payment, vandalism, failures due to oversupply etc.
How is Eskom dealing with this?
Eskom started a pilot project to redo Benoni and Nigel Townships - they decided to rebuild the network there to solve the payment, theft and vandalism issues. Its ongoing, but shows what can be done.
The townships encompass roughly 162,000 consumers. Existing infrastructure is extremely dangerous (mostly due to end users cheating the system..), and the losses there are allegedly the highest in the region, which made this a suitable pilot project.
Eskom did an initial feasibility study and found that:
40% of substations were overloaded.
12.5% of meters were illegally bypassed.
61% were labelled incorrectly.
38% of substations were vandalised.
35% of substations were open to access.
Financial Losses for electricity electricity used / vs income ranged from 10 - 50% loss due to theft / vandalism a month, depending on area.
Eskoms solutions was to initially repair the safety issues, then to replace equipment and secure from tampering / vandalism in a phased approach. That worked, and they managed to reduce non-technical losses (i.e. theft/vandalism) from 47% to 8%!
Eskom estimates that income will increase by 55% once completely implemented.
This can and should be rolled out to other townships (Soweto would be a prime candidate).
Eskom can and should be informing consumers of what its doing.
I consider this good news from the parastatal, and a sign that not everything is falling apart.
Its a shame that documentation like this is hidden away...
Full document here -
https://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/2...e&show_recommendations=false&view_mode=scroll
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