With South Africa enduring record power outages, Eskom has given assurances that the electricity grid won’t collapse.
The ailing power utility has reiterated that it was doing everything possible to avoid a total grid failure by implementing rotational power cuts and reducing supply.
Earlier on Tuesday, Eskom acting CEO Calib Cassim told delegates at the Enlit Africa conference in Cape Town that he does not “lose sleep” over the possibility of a blackout.
Echoing Cassim’s sentiments, the utility’s Daphne Mokwena said that only a perfect storm could lead to a nationwide blackout.
“The grid is by no means at a higher or imminent risk of collapse and it would take an unforeseen and sudden sequence of events that results in a cascading collapse of the transmission or generation system leading to a complete loss of supply across the country. Eskom has robust contingency plans in place to deal with such an eventuality.”
-EWN
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