Eskom said the national electricity grid was stable on Monday evening after warning earlier that it had come under “severe pressure”.
The power utility had urged customers to switch off all non-essential appliances, geysers and unnecessary lights just after 5pm.that no load-shedding was anticipated but added that electricity was being switched off in some high-density areas where there were many illegal connections.
“We have been battling, particularly in the residential areas of Gauteng — the high-density areas where you have a lot of illegal connections and overloading. When the infrastructure gets overloaded, we get a lot of transformers exploding due to the overload,” he said.
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