{"id":965099,"date":"2024-07-10T09:37:49","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T09:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=965099"},"modified":"2024-07-10T09:37:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T09:37:49","slug":"eskom-blames-non-disclosure-of-backyard-dwellers-for-system-overload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/eskom-blames-non-disclosure-of-backyard-dwellers-for-system-overload\/","title":{"rendered":"Eskom blames non-disclosure of backyard dwellers for system overload"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom says most transformers are overloaded because some customers do not indicate when they have backyard dwellers, as this results in an increase in their energy consumption.<\/p>\n<p>The power utility says when consumption surpasses what has been provided in different households, transformers end up being overloaded.<\/p>\n<p>Eskom has decided to implement load reduction to avoid overloading in high density areas.<\/p>\n<p>Daphne Mokwena, Eskom spokesperson, says they are also faced with a problem of some customers bypassing meters.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Eskom to implement load reduction to prevent infrastructure failure\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/safm-sunrise-1\/eskom-to-implement-load-reduction-to-prevent-infra\/embed\" width=\"360%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because we do place every year, we make plans or we even have a 20 year master plan. But if we&#8217;ve got an influx of people coming in and we don&#8217;t know about them like in your yard, we don&#8217;t know what is happening in your yard. Then we have a problem, because then the transformer that I&#8217;ve designed for 20 people, all of a sudden we&#8217;ve got 60 people for example.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen now I&#8217;ve got a problem because that transformer can only handle 20 people and cannot handle the 60 or the 40 that I do not know of, that I didn&#8217;t design for and this is where now the problem comes in,\u201d Mokwena adds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eskom implements load reduction: Daphne Mokwena<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dAqcZ-OLC1E?si=NFUxPeR-XmJ5JAgd\" width=\"1060\" height=\"615\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom has decided to implement load reduction to avoid overloading in high density areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":965100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[1016,303,1017,1018],"class_list":["post-965099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-africa","tag-daphne-mokwena","tag-eskom","tag-power-utility","tag-safm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}