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Eskom denied on Wednesday that it had exceeded the stage 4 load shedding limits.
This after energy expert Ted Blom said that the power company had exceeded stage 4 load shedding in September, allowing up to 4,000 MW of domestic load to be removed.
According to Blom, on September 2 and 3, more than 5,000 MW are released.
“Above 5,000MW to 6,000MW, that is scheduled in stage 6,” he said.
Blom said there was a significant difference between stage 4 and stage 6 load shedding.
He said that in stage 6, Eskom was unable to supply 20% of the electricity demand.
However, Eskom’s spokesman, Sikonathi Mantshantsha, denied the allegations.
Transparency
Mantshantsha said that every night Eskom publishes performance statistics on social media and in the media, adding that the statistics are published to make Eskom transparent.
“Eskom has always stripped itself of exactly what it said it would do. If we said we would implement stage 4 load shedding, we would reduce it by 4,000MW. Eskom has admitted for a while that it has a capacity problem and that it cannot supply power to the entire country. “
Mantshantsha said that load reduction should also be taken into account when implementing load reduction.
He said that when Eskom declares stage 4 load shedding, it can ask any major industrial consumer, such as mines and foundries, to reduce load by up to 20%. According to Mantshantsha, this is for a maximum of two hours.
Mantshantsha said this was equivalent to 1,200MW of demand, which was part of the authorized load restriction.
“Eskom has been doing this for years and these companies should not produce during those two hours. Companies are compensated.
“Those 1,200MW are in addition to what we have already obtained from the public. If you add those 1,200MW with the 4,000MW that we released from the public in stage 4, it reaches the 5,000MW that Ted Blom talks about. “
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