Times Of Swaziland: DAY-LONG LOAD-SHEDDING

DAY-LONG LOAD-SHEDDING
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BY NCAMISO MHLANGA on 26/02/2016 03:36:00


MBABANE – The Swaziland Electricity Company (SEC) is effecting day-long
load-shedding due to problems caused by a scheduled maintenance programme that
is being carried out by ESKOM at the Normandie-Nhlangano 2 line.
In a statement, Sifiso Dhlamini, the Marketing and Corporate Communications
Manager, said: “SEC has initiated load-shedding.  The planned shutdown will
continue from today until Monday, February 29, 2016. This situation has put the
electricity network nationwide under extreme pressure. As a result, SEC is
effecting day-long load-shedding as per the attached schedule to avoid system
collapse.”
Dhlamini said the situation was made worse by the fact that SEC currently did
not have the option of internal generation as all its four power stations were
shut down due to the prevailing drought.