Eskom in its final stages of completing plans to end load reduction, says Ramokgopa

JOHANNESBURG - State-owned company Eskom is currently in its final stages of completing its plans to end load reduction.

The power utility had implemented its planned outages in various communities in what it said is a means to avoid network overloading in high-demand areas.

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Various communities have been affected by reduction for about four years now.

Many have expressed that these outages are mainly targeted at poor communities, a sentiment the Minister of Electricity Kgosientsho Ramokgopa had also shared during his media briefing in Pretoria on Wednesday.

"Yes, indeed, we don't have load shedding, but there are many people in many parts of the country that are experiencing load reduction. So that's a downstream isolated capacity constraint, such that the infrastructure at the level of distribution and reticulation is not sufficient to provide for the demand that is placed on that infrastructure. Like I said to the country, we're at the final stages of how we're going to resolve load reduction."