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Eskom Loadshedding Compared to Energy Produced in 2023 Eskom Nation Grid Production by Source in April 2023, rolling blackouts seen in Red. South Africa's energy crisis (or load shedding) is an ongoing period of widespread national power outages beginning at the end of 2007.
In December 2019, load shedding reached a new high as Eskom introduced stage 6 load shedding for the first time. [166] Cyril Ramaphosa faced criticism as his departure for Egypt was announced shortly after the move to stage 6. [167] He returned early to address the problem, meeting on 11 December with the Eskom board.
In 2023, in an affidavit by outgoing Eskom CEO, André De Ruyter said former Eskom CEOs Brian Molefe and Matshela Koko refused to conclude agreements with Renewable Energy Independent Power Producers, thus exacerbating load shedding. It was estimated that up to 96% of load shedding would have been avoided had they not halted the REIPPPP. [9]
A room during load shedding at night in West Bengal, India. A rolling blackout, also referred to as rota or rotational load shedding, rota disconnection, feeder rotation, or a rotating outage, is an intentionally engineered electrical power shutdown in which electricity delivery is stopped for non-overlapping periods of time over different parts of the distribution region.
The outage occurred only an hour after the National Electricity Market Management Company (NEMMCO) issued a statement saying load shedding was ending and power had been restored. Authorities say there had been a major electricity failure in the city's west, caused by the three-day heatwave.
Due to the sufficiency of backup supply, major power cuts were not experienced until Friday 25 November, when the backup capacity began running out. At this point, rotational load shedding was employed, with customers being switched off in stages for most of the day. Koeberg was re-synchronised to the national grid on Saturday 26 November.
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City Power currently obtains 90% of its power from Eskom and 10% from the Kelvin Power Station from which it seeks to move away from. [5] In 2014, it announced that it will remotely switch off geysers "to reduce the impact of load shedding. [6] In 2021, it resolved to be an electricity generator to "reduce over-reliance on Eskom". [7]