Power utility Eskom clarifies that load shedding suspensions are not due to political pressure, but rather a response to supply and demand fluctuations. Frequent changes in load shedding stages have been observed recently in South Africa.
Power utility Eskom says that load shedding suspensions aren’t coming as a result of political or any other pressure, but rather as a response to the fluctuations and shifts in supply and demand at any given time. And the reason these suspensions don’t always last – or shift back to load shedding very suddenly, as was the case last week – is that things can change very quickly, and the National Control Centre needs to take the necessary action to protect the grid.
South Africans have become accustomed to frequent changes in load shedding over the past few years, but in recent weeks, shifts in stages have been quite dramatic, swinging from no load shedding to permanent stage 2 or stage 3 outages at short notice. Other times, Eskom has suspended load shedding overnight without even announcing it, only to return to outages again in the mornin
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