Joburg: Load-shedding caught the city off-guard
The City of Johannesburg says the latest bout of load-shedding caught the city, like most South Africans, completely off-guard.
The City of Johannesburg says the latest bout of load-shedding caught the city, like most South Africans, completely off-guard.
Eskom announced on Sunday that load-shedding will be implemented across the country and that the power cuts may last until April.
On Monday it implemented its highest stage of load-shedding, stage 4, for the first time in a decade.
The forced blackouts continued on Tuesday with stage 3.
The city's Nico de Jager says when load-shedding was announced it caught City Power by surprise and muddled the usual load-shedding schedule.
"As a result, there appeared to have been confusion where entire substations were load-shed at once instead of the block-by-block approach as per the schedules.
"This happened as a result of the City Power system control using a different version of the schedule compared to what Eskom used after the system crashed.”
De Jager has given an assurance that the city is now aligned with the Eskom system and that the city will engage with the power utility to ensure the accuracy of the load-shedding schedules.
City Power implemented Stage 3 load-shedding between 8 am and 11 pm on Tuesday.
"The city wishes to apologise for the inconvenience caused by load-shedding,” says De Jager.