Eskom’s troubles continue
Eskom urges community to use electricity sparingly to ease pressure on the national power grid.
Power giant, Eskom continues to warn the community that until the utilities generating ability and finances are greatly improved, load shedding is a possibility.
It has been reported that power shortage are a result of unforeseen technical problems at power stations, depleted water reserves at peaking power stations which use water to generate electricity and depleted diesel reserves to fire up the open-cycle gas turbines.
On Tuesday, the company released its interim report, which painted a bleak picture of supply problems that will last well into March of next year, as it battles with limited finances and fuel shortages.
Eskom says the grid remains under severe pressure and it will implement load shedding as and when necessary.
The company continued to say that it is facing the crisis of trying to balance high electricity demand with maintaining its aging generating plants.
Eskom CEO Tshediso Matona said, “Load shedding during this maintenance is inevitable.
“When we do load shedding, it’s out of responsibility to prevent a total blackout.”
He went on to explain that load shedding is necessary to prevent a total blackout.
Eskom concedes it needs new plants online to stabilise the situation.
Eskom calls on consumers to urgently switch off geysers, air conditioners, pool pumps and all non-essential appliances throughout the day to limit the impact of rotational load shedding.
Eskom’s load shedding schedules are available for Eskom direct customers on our website (https://loadshedding.eskom.co.za/).
Customers can also contact our call centre 0860 037 566 for additional information.
Load shedding schedules will only be utilised for the duration of the constraint and Eskom will provide regular updates on the status of the power system.
