With seven consecutive nights of load shedding like last night, the lights are expected to remain off in the near future and Eskom will not be able to give assurances as to when that will change. Eskom announced yesterday that phase 3 load disposal will be implemented from 5pm to 10pm tonight and tomorrow afternoon, after which it will be reduced to phase 2 for the remainder of the week. According to Eskom, this was due to additional losses of generation capacity and the high demand at those times. The future is as dark as ever Eskom spokesman Sikonathi Mantshantsha said that only the loss of burden …
With seven consecutive nights of load shedding like last night, the lights are expected to remain off in the near future and Eskom will not be able to give assurances as to when that will change.
Eskom announced yesterday that phase 3 load disposal will be implemented from 5pm to 10pm tonight and tomorrow afternoon, after which it will be reduced to phase 2 for the remainder of the week.
According to Eskom, this was due to additional losses of generation capacity and the high demand at those times.
The future is as dark as ever
Eskom spokesman Sikonathi Mantshantsha said the load release only occurred when there was a shortage of generators, due to the breakdown of the machines and Eskom being unable to meet the total demand for electricity.
There was no answer as to why Eskom’s burden was heavier when businesses closed and almost everyone at home.
Regarding the long-term implementation of load laundering for proper maintenance, Mantshantsha said the country could not be put on an extended load-bearing plan because it had more than enough capacity to supply power “at certain times”. .
Poor management
Political analyst Levy Ndou said Eskom had the challenge of not being aware of when he had to supply more people with electricity and also needed to increase capacity.
Ndou said all this spoke to poor management within Eskom.
He said the Eskom management, the board and the government should also be blamed as a superintendent.
“If you hire engineers at Eskom, they should be advising management and supply boards to meet demand, increase capacity and service infrastructure, which has not happened,” he said.
The mandate failed
Ndou said Eskom simply failed to mandate to supply electricity. If Eskom did not supply electricity in an efficient and uninterrupted manner, it should be blamed.
“There is no way we can say Eskom is failing and then we point fingers elsewhere. It cannot work like that, ”he said.
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Ndou also said that he hoped and hoped that the right people would be appointed to deal with the challenges in Eskom on a permanent basis, to ensure that there would be no future power cuts.
“Load release is only necessary when too many machines are broken,” he said.
Task team to help Eskom
Antswisa Transaction Consultant Chief executive and economist Miyelani Mkhabela said U.S. electricity challenges were now commonplace.
In addition, the power utility leaders had no solution but one press release to let the country know what they were unable to fix.
He said President Cyril Ramaphosa needed to set up a team to help Eskom transition from this challenge of burden loss.
“This has affected the economy and investors in the manufacturing and mining industries,” he said.
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