Load reduction due to risk of network overload in winter: Eskom

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Eskom has sought to explain why they’ve resumed load reduction in seven provinces. The power utility says network overloading is threatening critical electricity infrastructure with the onset of winter.

Eskom says this issue is prevalent in Limpopo, Western Cape, Eastern Cape, Gauteng, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal, and North-West.

Eskom spokesperson Daphne Mokwena says, “We are implementing it because isolated specific networks are overloading. And what overloading means is that customers that are connected to that particular network are basically consuming electricity that is more than what that particular network is designed to cater for.”

She adds, “In this case, you have those networks where customers are consuming electricity indiscriminately and because most of these customers would have bypassed their meters where they are not buying like you and me then we’ve got the infrastructure like your transformers integrity being at risk.”

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Eskom resumes load reduction as loadshedding remains suspended to protect human life as a result of electricity theft pic.twitter.com/i7SKYWtMmW

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