Eskom announced in a statement on Monday that they have reached a milestone where over 1 million customers have been removed from load reduction.
Eskom said it has removed over one million customers from load reduction, but there are still areas in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal where it is being applied.
Eskom announced in a statement that this was part of the Load Reduction Eradication Programme. “Five of South Africa's nine provinces are now free from load reduction. To date, 1 104 225 customers have been removed from load reduction schedules, representing 65.17% performance towards the programme's load reduction eradication target.”
Load reduction was introduced as a temporary network protection measure in areas affected by infrastructure overloading, illegal connections, electricity theft, meter tampering and demand growth that exceeded the design capacity of local networks. South Africa's power system has gone more than 413 consecutive days without loadshedding, significant improvements in generation performance, operational reliability and the reduction of unplanned outages.
“Originally implemented to address overloaded local networks and protect electricity infrastructure, the programme has removed 545 feeders from load reduction nationally, with the remaining load reduction areas concentrated largely in Gauteng followed by KwaZulu-Natal,” added Eskom.
