City of Johannesburg’s power utility, City Power says it has suspended load reduction indefinitely. It says this follows improvements in the functioning of the system that led to the reduction in the number of high-consumption substations. Load reduction had been implemented in some areas where people had illegally connected to the grid – putting a
City of Johannesburg’s power utility, City Power says it has suspended load reduction indefinitely.
It says this follows improvements in the functioning of the system that led to the reduction in the number of high-consumption substations.
Load reduction had been implemented in some areas where people had illegally connected to the grid – putting a strain on substations.
Load reduction had been paused during the festive season due to low demand but was set to resume this month.
Speaking at the Human Rights Commission’s inquiry into load reduction’s impact on human rights in Johannesburg, City Power spokesperson Isaac Mangena says the grid has stabilised.
“And so after monitoring our grid we realised that we are still very much fine. But also it’s because of some of the programs that City Power introduced while we had suspended the load detection, especially with roll over project where we managed to basically normalise most of those areas that were problematic, that were not buying electricity and that were basically overloading our network and our systems. So those areas now are normal, if I can put it that way and we’re able to basically exclude them from load reduction.”
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