{"id":90725,"date":"2024-08-01T13:01:32","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T11:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/?p=90725"},"modified":"2024-08-01T13:01:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T11:01:32","slug":"eskom-electricity-supply-exceeds-demands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/eskom-electricity-supply-exceeds-demands\/","title":{"rendered":"Eskom: Electricity supply exceeds demands"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sameera Casmod | sameerac@radioislam.co.za<\/a>
\n1 August 2024 | 13:01 SAST
\n1-minute read<\/p>\n

\"\"

Image: IT Business<\/p><\/div>\n

The power utility placed seven generating units on cold reserve over the weekend to keep the grid stable after power supply far exceeded demand last week.<\/p>\n

Cold reserve refers to\u00a0the generating capacity that is available for service but not normally ready for immediate loading.<\/p>\n

Energy expert Clyde Mallinson says that a healthy reserve margin in case of emergency is a good thing.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s absolutely normal to have an excess of power generating units in a healthy electrical system,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Eskom\u2019s power-saving campaigns could have resulted in this excess, with people having become accustomed to using less power.<\/p>\n

However, load reduction is still a possibility, because of challenges with the distribution system.<\/p>\n

\u201cLoad reduction is a problem of not having sufficient infrastructure in your distribution system to get the product to all the customers who want it at a particular time,\u201d Mallinson said.<\/p>\n

This could be because the distribution system was not designed to accommodate so many consumers, or due to a lack of maintenance of the distribution system.<\/p>\n

Listen<\/strong> to the full interview<\/a> on Sabaahul Muslim with Moulana Sulaimaan Ravat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sameera Casmod | sameerac@radioislam.co.za 1 August 2024 | 13:01 SAST 1-minute read The power utility placed seven generating units on cold reserve over the weekend to keep the grid stable after power supply far exceeded demand last week. Cold reserve refers to\u00a0the generating capacity that is available for service but not normally ready for immediate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":90726,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28,4995],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-south-africa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/load-shedding-is-gone.jpg-1.jpg?fit=457%2C460&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc0QIf-nBj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 20:01:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}