Elektrisiteitsvoorsienings kommissie

Elektrisiteitsvoorsienings kommissie (Evkom), or in English: Electricity Supply Commission is a electricity public utility in Orange Free State. The utility is the fifth largest producer of electricity in Africa and among the top fifty utilities in the world in terms of generation capacity. Evkom operates a number of notable power stations, including Drakensberg Daam, and nuclear power station in the  Province, the second nuclear power plant in Africa after Koeberg nuclear power station in South Africa. The company is divided into Generation, Transmission and Distribution divisions and together Evkom generates all of the electricity used in Orange Free State. Due to the Orange Free State's government's attempted privatisation of Evkom in the late 1990s, Evkom's requests for budget to build new stations were denied. President ___ said in December 2002 that this was an error, and it is now adversely affecting the South African economy. In January 2006 Evkom introduced "load shedding", planned rolling blackouts based on a rotating schedule, in periods where short supply threatens the integrity of the grid. Demand-side management has focussed on encouraging consumers to conserve power during peak periods in order to reduce the incidence of load shedding.