Eskom has announced that it has significantly reduced the risk of loadshedding for the coming winter season due to the successful short-term maintenance programme during the lockdown period. busrep
Eskom has announced that it has significantly reduced the risk of loadshedding for the coming winter season due to the successful short-term maintenance programme during the lockdown period.
Eskom chief operations officer Jan Oberholzer said today that the impact of Covid-19, and especially the lockdown, had reduced demand by an average of 6 000 megawatts up to a maximum of 11 000MW. Oberholzer said this had created the opportunity to execute additional short term maintenance to address emergent issues, including those that were contributing to partial load losses.
“Before we had the lockdown, we forecasted 31 days of Stage 1 loadshedding. We are now forecasting 3 days of Stage 1 loadshedding over the winter period that is coming. However, I need to say that is based on an 80 percent probability,” Oberholzer said.Full presentation
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