MOSSEL BAY NEWS - Mossel Bay is on the Eskom load shedding programme, with the condition that supply on the Voorbaai 66kV Feeder remains secured due to the critical load to the PetroSA refinery, as per Clause 8.6.8 of NRS 048-9-2017 (refineries, fuel pipelines, associated loading and off-loading depots should be excluded from emergency load reduction requirements).
The need for a continuous supply of diesel to the Gouriqua Power Station, also plays a role so that the Mossel Bay intake substation at Voorbaai is not affected during load shedding.
Please note that all embedded networks in the Mossel Bay CBD and surrounding areas, by virtue of having the same source of supply (Voorbaai 66kV feeder), are not individually isolated by the municipality and are unfortunately excluded from load shedding.
Mossel Bay Municipality does not have a central control room from which to perform remote electrical switching.
Performing manual switching operations at our various substations to maximise load shedding in all areas will involve intensive manual switching operations, which will be time consuming and ineffective during the relative short periods of load shedding.
Therefore, all the load shedding switching is done remotely by Eskom at the 66kV level.
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