load shedding, noun phrase
- Forms:
- Also loadshedding.
The deliberate shutdown of electricity supply by Eskom in designated areas according to a specified rotational schedule, to prevent total failure of the national electricity grid when demand exceeds supply.
2008 L. Donnelly in Mail & Guardian 25 Jan. 7If it’s not energy efficiency, it’s power rationing; if it’s not power rationing, it’s load-shedding, if it’s not load-shedding it’s blackouts...South Africa’s power crisis has commercial, industrial and domestic power users pulling their hair...
2017 dailymaverick.co.za (DSAE Corpus)This led to South Africa missing riding the commodity boom cycle that saw countries like Brazil and Australia gaining great development while South Africa was plunged in the dark over load shedding.
The deliberate shutdown of electricity supply by Eskom in designated areas according to a specified rotational schedule, to prevent total failure of the national electricity grid when demand exceeds supply.
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