Leaked recordings from a meeting of US officials with local stakeholders shows that worries are mounting around South Africa’s power grid.
The caution from the US comes as South Africa is sitting on its 82nd consecutive day of load shedding. Rolling blackouts have hit the country every day of the year so far – and at higher stages than most businesses and residents are equipped to deal with.
As a result, talk of the highest stage of scheduled load shedding – stage 8 – has been picking up traction, with some analysts saying the country may even step beyond that. Independent analyst Pieter Jordaan noted that, based on the current blackout schedules, the mathematical maximum stage that small power users like households would face, is stage 14 – where households would have power for one hour every three days.Even at these extreme levels of theoretical load shedding, however, the grid would still be protected from collapse as that is the entire point of load shedding to begin with.
“They would move to an idling state where they could power the power stations and keep the lines active,” he said.that if capacity issues go beyond stage 8, it is currently up to the System Operator to make specific determinations, per province, for how much additional power needs to be pulled from the grid.
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