to give you an idea...i go to site because of an electrical fault i get to site started tracing the fault power goes off so i leave site drive from westville to customer next to gateway...e/l has blown form lightning...get there no power replace the e/l unit and switch back on and hope it works...off to sarnia to work at a customer no power...so now i have to plan my day and visits around load shedding...cut back on staff because i dont need people sitting around on site waitng for power.

companies are suffering...i have a customer who wants to put in a generator...the cost to keep the plant running... 1.8 million excluding installation and waiting period 4 months...more than 50 staff sit every day for 4 hours and the machines loose production of 6 hours because of the time required to setup after the load shedding takes 1 hour the company is running 24/7...and you think you have problems.