Public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan says the government has not considered declaring a state of disaster to respond to the energy challenges being faced by Eskom.
Public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan says the government has not considered declaring a state of disaster to respond to the energy challenges being faced by Eskom – because the power utility could introduce progressively higher levels of outages to keep the grid from going offline.
“There should therefore be a distinction made between a state of disaster just for ‘dramatic effect’ compared to a power system emergency. It falls within the purview of the system’s operator . At all times the main imperative is to avoid the total collapse of the grid as occurred in California and more recently in Texas.
Stage 8 load shedding – which has not been introduced in South Africa until this point – would see as much as 13 hours of power cuts a dayany suggestion that the South African power grid is in immediate danger of a total system blackout. The Eskom chief said that the load shedding system provides for a reduction in load to as high as Stage 8, adding that this gives headroom in the system to avoid a total blackout.
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