Eskom is working hard to come up with both short and long-term solutions for over-taxed power grids and ageing delivery systems. This may help to alleviate Eskom's problem of reliability for the time being, but with the ever-growing number of electrical and electronic devices being used in business and the ever-increasing consumption of electricity, you can already identify that the electrical systems of our country will be pushed to the limit in the foreseeable future.

What can be done to alleviate the problem?

Become more energy efficient and lower your electricity bills by using your power more efficiently and protect your sensitive electrical and electronic equipment from potential damage caused by the questionable quality of our power supply. Every flicker, every surge too small to see with the naked eye, has an impact on your electrical and electronic devices. Whether you are in a hospital, data centre, office building, manufacturing plant or machine shop, your equipment's life expectancy is reduced with every power quality event that occurs.

In addition, major power events will often result in machinery shutdown and significant loss of production incurred by the end user. Poor quality can cause a deluge of real costs associated with constant maintenance, decreased product quality, increased scrap or production loss and equipment repair and replacement.