The utility says when consumption surpasses what has been provided in different households, transformers end up being overloaded.

Eskom has decided to implement load reduction to avoid overloading in high density areas. Eskom Spokesperson, Daphne Mokwena says they are also faced with a problem of some customers bypassing meters. "Because we do place every year, we do plans or we even have a 20 year master plan.

“But if we've got influx of people coming in and we don't know about them like in your yard, we don't know what is happening in your yard.

“Then we've got a problem, because then the transformer that I've designed for 20 people, all of a sudden, we've got it is 60 people for an example.  “Now I've got a problem because that transformer can only handle 20 people and cannot handle the 60 or the 40 that I do not know that I didn't design for and this is where now the problem comes in."

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