South Africa encounters serious "electricity shortage" and frequent power rationing will be introduced one after another
2021-06-15
On June 10, South Africa's local time, South Africa's state power company issued a statement saying that South Africa's power shortage is difficult to solve in a short time, and frequent power rationing measures are expected to be introduced one after another this winter.
A few days ago, South Africa suffered from a serious "power shortage" due to the increasing demand for electricity and the failure of generator sets caused by the cold wave. Since June, the average daily blackout time in South Africa has been more than five hours. On June 9, the South African power company once upgraded the level of power restriction to level 4 (reducing power supply by 4000 MW per day). Such frequent power rationing measures seriously affect the normal operation of major cities in South Africa, especially in the winter of South Africa, power rationing makes it difficult to guarantee the basic heating demand of South African people.
Although the fourth level of power rationing only lasted for one day, South Africa still maintains the second level of power rationing throughout the day. In this regard, South Africa electric power company explained that the second level power rationing measures were taken all day, one was due to serious follow-up failure of generator units, and the other was to ensure South Africa's national emergency power generation capacity. At the same time, due to the lack of power supply capacity, it is difficult to solve the problem in a short period of time. Eskom expects that frequent power rationing measures will be introduced in succession this winter.
As of the press time, South Africa's state power company is still carrying out emergency repair on the failed generator units, and increasing the emergency power generation reserve capacity. The current round of national power rationing is expected to end in the evening of June 13.
Restricted by the sound of movies, traffic jams frequently occur in South Africa due to power failure of signal lights, and household power generation and heating equipment are placed in eye-catching positions of major supermarkets.
A few days ago, South Africa suffered from a serious "power shortage" due to the increasing demand for electricity and the failure of generator sets caused by the cold wave. Since June, the average daily blackout time in South Africa has been more than five hours. On June 9, the South African power company once upgraded the level of power restriction to level 4 (reducing power supply by 4000 MW per day). Such frequent power rationing measures seriously affect the normal operation of major cities in South Africa, especially in the winter of South Africa, power rationing makes it difficult to guarantee the basic heating demand of South African people.
Although the fourth level of power rationing only lasted for one day, South Africa still maintains the second level of power rationing throughout the day. In this regard, South Africa electric power company explained that the second level power rationing measures were taken all day, one was due to serious follow-up failure of generator units, and the other was to ensure South Africa's national emergency power generation capacity. At the same time, due to the lack of power supply capacity, it is difficult to solve the problem in a short period of time. Eskom expects that frequent power rationing measures will be introduced in succession this winter.
As of the press time, South Africa's state power company is still carrying out emergency repair on the failed generator units, and increasing the emergency power generation reserve capacity. The current round of national power rationing is expected to end in the evening of June 13.
Restricted by the sound of movies, traffic jams frequently occur in South Africa due to power failure of signal lights, and household power generation and heating equipment are placed in eye-catching positions of major supermarkets.
At present, South African national power company is deeply in debt crisis. In the past 15 years, poor management caused by corruption has directly led to frequent failures of power equipment, which has led South Africa into a vicious circle of power rationing. Although the South African government put forward the plan of splitting up the national power company as early as 2019, the reform has made slow progress so far.
Source: zhongxin.com Author: Wang Xi