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Energy future on a knife-edge In 2015, Eskom was load shedding its customers. Eskom didn’t have enough electricity, so instead of allowing a grid meltdown, where the whole grid went down, Eskom did something they called “load shedding.” This means that for between two and four hours at a time, Eskom switched off parts of the national electricity grid, thus saving themselves major problems. They kept their power stations running as best they could and they simply switched off their clients.

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The problems were caused by electricity growth exceeding supply of new power stations; by failures in the system; and by bad long term implementation plans. this being switched

30 Oct 2017 - D. L. / E. E.