Residents were subject to several minutes of intermittent power supply, with lights flickering on and off every few seconds. Others had to restore their power supply at the Eskom electricity boxes outside their homes.
The pilot project focused on customers with smart prepaid meters and aims to reduce customer’s electricity capacity from 60/80 amps to 10 amps. This is to manage and optimise electricity consumption to balance the supply and demand on the grid particularly during stages 1 and 4 of load-shedding.
However, residents were subject to several minutes of intermittent power supply, with lights flickering on and off every few seconds. Others had to restore their power supply at the Eskom electricity boxes outside their homes, said DA ward 94 councillor David Foley. “People’s lights would go on and off, causing problems. On Thursday I went to help some of the elderly and turned on their electricity boxes outside their homes. It seems the problem is getting resolved by Eskom,” he told TimesLIVE.
Resident Jolene Cusens said they adhered to the rules of the project from the start by turning off geysers before load-shedding starts and only have a few lights and the fridge on. But once the blackouts kicked in, the lights started flickering instead. “Without fail, when the load-shedding began, our power turned off and on every five seconds for up to 10 minutes in a row. This is not limited to the start of the load-shedding slot ... Our power is then turned off completely until the end of the load-shedding slot, and sometimes over the scheduled time,” she said.
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