City Power considers legal action against Eskom over loadshedding
31 October 2021
City Power would like to confirm the media reports that we wrote to Eskom to reject their assertion to refuse to exclude our customers in Johannesburg from loadshedding Stage 1 and 2.
The letter sent on Friday, comes at the back of many engagements both City Power and Eskom had this past week in which we sought to present our case why we want the City to be excluded from loadshedding, especially after we signed a new power purchase agreement with Kelvin Power Station which gives us an added capacity of 220MW.
In the meetings Eskom refused to move on its stance that the 180 MW electricity power generated by Kelvin’s Power Station has already been included in City Power’s baseload and thus cannot be taken into account in deciding to exclude City Power from loadshedding. They also express their willingness to consider excluding City Power from loadshedding in the event that City Power produces electricity in excess of the 180MW currently produced through Kelvin.
Eskom also pointed out that Kelvin will be required to ramp up higher outputs at short notice as and when Eskom anticipates loadshedding, if the City of Johannesburg is to be excluded.