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All municipalities buy their energy in bulk from Eskom and, according to Nersa’s guideline, this constitutes around 74% of the tariff. Image: Bloomberg
Eskom will implement the ‘load reduction’ in four provinces on Saturday night from 17:00 to 20:00, it said in a notice to customers.
Load shedding, as opposed to load shedding, involves Eskom turning off power in areas where it believes there is a high risk of damage to your system due to illegal connections and network overload.
Areas affected on Saturday include the Lejweleputswa district municipality in the Free State, much of Soweto and the Vaal area in Gauteng; Ladysmith, Newcastle, uMlalazi, uMhlathuze, uMkhanyakude and Msunduzi municipalities in KwaZulu-Natal and parts of the Mopani and Capricorn districts in Limpopo.
Eskom is struggling to keep up with overload-related equipment failures that cost “millions” to repair, the debt-laden power company said.
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