Energy management campaign stresses the safeguarding of Eskom’s infrastructure
The campaign took off in Gauteng and sparked discussions about network overloading.
The importance of looking after Eskom’s infrastructure was highlighted during the launch of their Energy Management Campaign meant to intensify efforts in addressing the increasing risks associated with repeated equipment failure.
The campaign that took off in Gauteng sparked discussions about network overloading which results in mini sub-stations and transformers explosions, especially in high-density areas.
The campaign also focused on the people from various communities, and their need to look after Eskom’s infrastructure to make sure that their electricity does not get interrupted over and over again.
In Protea Glen they recently experienced too much power being supplied to their appliances, the people complained about that destroying their appliances and needed Eskom to intervene, when the power utility finally intervened, Tumi Mashishi of Eskom said, “We have discovered that the people from that area do not pay for electricity, the illegally organized their own electrician to fix Eskom’s cable. This cable has a problem now.”
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The campaign took off on September 30 and it sought to account for the electricity that is supplied to customers across different sectors as well because like the incident mentioned above, many people are honestly sitting on illegal connections unsuspectingly even though so perpetrate the entire illegal process.
The campaign will see proactive audits take place and illegal connections and tempered meters removed wherever and whenever found just to make sure that Eskom’s’ network is safe for operations.
Identified hotspots areas were visited during the campaign as well to curb the vandalism therein.
All the undertaken measures were taken to simply protect Eskom’ Equipment which usually costs millions of Rands to replace, just because of overloading.
Overloading leads to prolonged power outages and often where customers are not paying for electricity, electricity is used inconsiderably, incurring huge energy and revenue loss for Eskom.
Then Senior Manager for Maintenance and Operations for Eskom Gauteng Operating Unit, Motlhabane Ramashi said, “We are still committed to consistently improving our operations and to optimize our plant performance through maintenance while rightfully dealing with unlawful connections, meter tampering, and emerging illegal operations that compromise the integrity of our network.”
Energy management is important to Eskom in order to improve their sales and to collect and recover revenue to sustain their operations, Ramashi said, “In Gauteng, Eskom had witnessed a significant rise in public safety incidents, therefore, it is our commitment to contain and ultimately eliminate public safety incidents that sprout from illegal connections and activities.”
People must report illegal connections.
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