About 1,104,225 customers in five of South Africa’s nine provinces are now free from load reduction.
This represents some 65.17% of Eskom’s eradication target.
These customers are in the Western Cape, Northern Cape, Free State and North West.
Areas with load reduction are in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal.
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.
Junaid Munshi, Eskom Group Executive for Distribution, said the state utility is addressing the underlying causes of load reduction, by investing in network infrastructure, the deployment of smart meters, the integration of Distributed Energy Resources, the expansion of Free Basic Electricity support, revenue protection initiatives, and collaboration with municipalities and communities.
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