Joburg’s R401-million plan to slash three stages of load-shedding

The City of Johannesburg has announced a R400-million project to cut load-shedding by up to three stages and ultimately end rotational power cuts in the city.

“This would, of course, require the city to procure and burn diesel. We are already sitting with 1.2 million litres of diesel for these sites.”R85 million will be spent on Ripple Relay Systems, through which City Power can remotely regulate power-hungry equipment such as geysers and swimming pool motors. The CoJ said this would reduce demand on the network by 80MW.

“This requires an Energy Management System upgrade, costing R120 million that will enable City Power to better monitor, control, and optimise the performance of its transmission system.”“We are therefore exploring the establishment of an infrastructure fund, and we will be approaching development finance institutions, the private sector, [and] the Provincial and National Governments to fund this project,” Phalatse said.

This resulted in substantial losses caused by declining sales and revenue, higher employee costs because of overtime, equipment failure and damage, and malicious activity such as theft and vandalism.“Not only does City Power lose revenue when the lights go out, but the entity is also forced to spend more money as a result,” Phalatse said.

“Therefore, my Office is again writing to the Gauteng Police Commissioner, Lieutenant-General Elias Mawela to dedicate resources to this attack on Joburg,” she added.

Halted by politicking...

My question is why have City Power and Eskom not secured all their mini substations that are continuing to be targeted? There are many security systems to be used and property secured fencing.

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