Eskom System Operator general manager Isabel Fick has one of the toughest jobs in South Africa — ensuring the country’s transmission grid is stable by carefully balancing demand and supply.
She has also obtained a Master of Business Administration from the NWU, a government certificate of competency, and several senior management programme qualifications. Load-shedding between 2020 and 2024 was more severe and frequent than during the entire 12 years since 2008, when South Africa’s rotational power cuts first started.
Fick’s team performs functions like detail forecasting, system modelling, protection settings, metering, inputs into power-purchasing agreements, resilience and emergency planning, safety, quality and environmental assurance, and systems design and scoping. She also travels to important transmission sites across the country as often as she can for a hands-on perspective.
“On the other hand, I am human and can really be concerned when there are baseless accusations without empirical evidence nor a clear understanding or knowledge of the power system and what it takes to make such an enormous organism function.”
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