date:Dec 04, 2018
Eskom, the national (and sole) electricity provider in South Africa has embarked on a programme of load shedding (planned power outages) as a result of maintenance on the grid. Such power outages are not new, but previously theyve usually occurred in winter at times of high electricity demand.
Its unusual for Eskom to cut electricity during summer, and for stonefruit packhouses it couldnt come at a worse time.
It is expected that these rounds of load shedding some parts of the Western Cape ex