‘Eskom is not being honest about load-shedding’

While Eskom continues to apply the load, citing damage to power generation units, all new indicators show the situation will worsen once the utility goes public.

A new report by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) says Eskom is “dishonest​​​​​​​​​about the number of generation units it has taken off the grid” – supporting the case made by some energy experts that the utility has been de facto doing so. eight load-shedding without acknowledgement, and without approval from the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa).

It is not the first time that Eskom has been accused of under-reporting stages of open-shedding has been implemented, with energy analysts such as Ted Blom and Chris Yelland criticizing it tends to shed more power than the grid of reports.