Load shedding is causing massive damage to municipal infrastructure, leading to longer blackouts than scheduled.
“For example, if a cable is built to take 6,000 kilovolts of electricity, load shedding creates so much of a demand when the power comes back on, it now has to take 7,000kv.” According to Blom, a transformer such as the one which blew in Johannesburg yesterday, causing the blackout in the city’s northern suburbs, could cost R100 million to replace, while smaller ones cost at least R20 million.
The city's infrastructure was never designed for fools 😜 say it like it is.
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