Eskom restarts load reduction due to transformer overload risk

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Eskom begins power cuts

Eskom has announced that it will resume load reduction in specific supply areas where network overloading is threatening critical electricity infrastructure.

It emphasised that load reduction is not load-shedding, as it still had sufficient generating capacity to meet the country's electricity demand.
 
Until they run out of “overloaded” transformers to switch off.
This isn't related to load shedding, this is something they've been doing for years and years, it just stopped over the heavy periods of shedding
 
This isn't related to load shedding, this is something they've been doing for years and years, it just stopped over the heavy periods of shedding
Sure. “We have plenty of power but can’t get it to you because you and your area are using too much of it” sounds less catastrophic.
 
Sure. “We have plenty of power but can’t get it to you because you and your area are using too much of it” sounds less catastrophic.
Once again, like the JHB load reduction. This is areas with high illegal connections who are drawing too much for the installed capacity. Eskom isn't going to waste millions replacing transformers of areas that don't pay. I mean everyone moans Eskom doesn't make profit and yadda yadda. Plus they've also been doing load reduction for years and years, it's not a new thing. Mybb is just doing it's usual to get clicks, scare mongering.
 
Load shedding, load reduction, load limiting, can't want for them to announce load removal.

Same same ;)
Load reduction isn't a new thing and it's not load shedding
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Notice the second thing, they do this to save money, also cause those who steal will continue to steal, so now they get a bit of a stick. It's a small thing but at least those who don't pay don't get power during peak hours.
 
Once again, like the JHB load reduction. This is areas with high illegal connections who are drawing too much for the installed capacity. Eskom isn't going to waste millions replacing transformers of areas that don't pay. I mean everyone moans Eskom doesn't make profit and yadda yadda. Plus they've also been doing load reduction for years and years, it's not a new thing. Mybb is just doing it's usual to get clicks, scare mongering.
Disconnecting non-payers and illegal connections clearly is more work.
 
Disconnecting non-payers and illegal connections clearly is more work.
Well to be fair, when they do try to do it, they get assaulted and shot at. And then when they leave, the connections are restored
 
Well to be fair, when they do try to do it, they get assaulted and shot at. And then when they leave, the connections are restored
Yup I mean there have actually been City Power engineers held hostage, killed. Sometimes they don't even want to go into those areas to fix issues cause of the people. So they now need to rely on these methods.
 
There's really two separate kinds of electricity in SA, there's the old-fashioned kind that people in brick houses pay for, and then there's the political kind that was thrown off the back of a truck in the 90s, with no plan, no payment, and no hope for long term reliability.

The more Eskom literally separates these into independent grids/operating systems, the better.
 
There's really two separate kinds of electricity in SA, there's the old-fashioned kind that people in brick houses pay for, and then there's the political kind that was thrown off the back of a truck in the 90s, with no plan, no payment, and no hope for long term reliability.

The more Eskom literally separates these into independent grids/operating systems, the better.
It's kinda what Eskom is doing with load reduction, you live in an area with a high amount of non-payers sadly you will be reduced with them.
 
Always some excuse, but never a solution to the people with illegal connections and the people that pay their bills need to suffer for this. Not only that we pay more for electricity because of all these illegal connections, now we can't have electricity because of them.
 
Eskom begins power cuts

Eskom has announced that it will resume load reduction in specific supply areas where network overloading is threatening critical electricity infrastructure.

It emphasised that load reduction is not load-shedding, as it still had sufficient generating capacity to meet the country's electricity demand.
anything but actually implement load shedding.

Its like we are on a plane crash in the Andes mountains and the food has run out. It's time to start eating dead passengers but someone keeps on finding mystery pork chops.
 
Well to be fair, when they do try to do it, they get assaulted and shot at. And then when they leave, the connections are restored
Wait. To let a criminal, be a criminal because they might retaliate is "fair"?
 
even eskom does not call load shedding load shedding anymore, its al a euthimisim for power cuts, unscheduled or not, its still power cuts.
 
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