COO Jan Oberholzer says Eskom used the lower demand during lockdown to conduct much more short-term opportunistic maintenance
The risk of load-shedding this winter has been significantly reduced thanks to Eskom’s aggressive short-term maintenance drive during the Covid-19 lockdown.
For example, that maintenance increased from 3,600MW before lockdown to as much as 9,800MW in the second week of April. Oberholzer stressed that the system remained unreliable, and so trips and breakdowns would continue to occur.
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