Each power station supplying the grid communicates its energy output capabilities to the Eskom's National Control Centre.
Sitting almost serenely on Power Street in Germiston, on Gauteng's east rand, is the"brain" of Eskom's operations, where a group of engineers and technicians keep a close eye on an overhead
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