Total blackout 'remote chance' despite high load-shedding stages — Energy expert
The chances of a total power blackout occurring in South Africa are still remote, despite rising concern about the return to stage 6 load-shedding on Wednesday, 7 December 2022.with Talk 702’s Bongani Bingwa.
“The fact that we have a particular stage of load-shedding for some hours or days actually indicates that supply and demand have been brought back into balance by this load-shedding, which will avert any possibility of a national blackout,” Yelland said. “It is when the frequency is dropping and not returning to 50Hz that you can say if that situation persists, then a national blackout may occur.”
When demand exceeds supply, generators, transformers, cables, and switch gears on the distribution network will become overloaded, causing trips along the distribution line.
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