Newcastillians have enjoyed a reprieve from the burden of loadshedding for just over a month. However, the looming threat of further power outages remains a reality with many people having some form of “loadshedding anxiety” regarding its return.
Nevertheless, there appears to be a game plan on the cards for Newcastle to see the town eradicate loadshedding entirely, thanks to an initiative from the Newcastle Municipality.
This initiative was disclosed by Newcastle Municipality’s Mayor, Cllr Xolani Dube, during the 5th Generation Integrated Development Plan Mayoral Roadshow on Tuesday, 30 April 2024, held at the Newcastle Show Grounds.
At the event, Cllr Dube highlighted the Municipality’s implementation of an energy generation programme. According to the Mayor, this programme aims to generate a minimum of 100 megawatts of electricity through collaborations with independent power producers.
While the proposed date for community involvement is yet to be announced, the Municipality is presently engaged in discussions with a potential independent power producer. Although the company’s identity remains under wraps at this stage, the project is anticipated to benefit various wards across Newcastle, mitigating the frequency and impact of loadshedding in the area.
As the Municipality takes proactive measures to alleviate the effects of loadshedding in the town, Cllr Dube noted that a council meeting would need to be convened to deliberate on the project’s finer details.
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How do we make roads safer and smoother with paint if the whole road is full of potholes the unroadworthy taxis don’t respect the road signs don’t stop at stop streets and robots here in fairleigh it’s really bad and then the arrogance of the drivers that can still stop and tell you it is our time now it just breaks your heart 🙏🙏but we’ll let’s pray for our town god bless us
IF it happens, it will be WONDERFUL!!! I pray & hope that it does!!!
Pipe Dream. All talk and no action. Another looting strategy.
Pie in the sky. Pipe dream
What a wonderful relief if they succeeded in eliminating loadshedding the struggling economy would pick up factories would open again and the average residents would be able to live again please pray this happens
Lets do the old strategy…..put timers on geysers in a city wide effort. And we all put our geysers off for a period of time each day, in exchange for no loadshedding. It worked before quite nicely and a lot of us still have the geyser switches.
Election story. After the election nothing will happen.
Loadsjedding will also return after the election should the anc win