South Africa: No Load Shedding? Don't Get Too Optimistic, Warns Yelland

Cape Town — While we should all be pleased that Eskom successfully performed the first part of its planned maintenance drive without load shedding since April 24, electricity consumers should be cautious of becoming too optimistic, energy expert Chris Yelland warned on Tuesday.

He told Fin24 the fact that there was no load shedding over the long weekend was not unexpected, because demand was particularly low over the weekend.

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