There have been several days on which Eskom’s evening peak demand statistics showed it had exceeded the maximum amount of capacity it can load-shed under a declared stage.
Power utility Eskom keeps getting called out for lying about load-shedding severity because it cannot report load curtailment statistics separately.implementing a higher stage of load-sheddingThere have been several days on which Eskom’s evening peak demand statistics showed it exceeded the maximum capacity it can load-shed under a declared stage.
Taken at face value, that would imply it had implemented stage 7 load-shedding, without any official announcement. It would seem that a simple solution for Eskom to reduce public confusion about its load-shedding stages would be to report national load-shedding and specific customer load curtailment separately.
“However, at a national level, Eskom uses statistical methods to derive how much total demand was reduced from the power system.”Unlike during load-shedding, the actual reduction in load due to curtailment varied based on factors like time of day, day of the week, and whether it is a high or low-demand electricity season, Eskom explained.
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