Load shedding is an energy utility’s method of reducing demand on the energy
systems. And it has bad impacts and good impacts .By temporarily switching off the
distribution of energy to certain geographical areas, it contributes to the failing
economy and affects the most vulnerable members of society and creates conflict
between people who work with electricity and many households. It may create a
threat to those labour workers because they are the ones responsible for keeping
load shedding going.
Load shedding effects some places like hospitals and some healthcare facilities. If
there is no electricity there is no technology taking place and this can increase to
high illnesses and cause high death rate. This is because technology is needed for
curing people with some medication. When load shedding occurs, most public
hospitals and other healthcare facilities are unable to give quality medication. Load
shedding also impacts the economy growth as people spend more money on
generators.
When load shedding occurs, the power goes out all mobile towers loose power, the
process weakens and becomes more complicated. Load shedding has many
advantages as one of it is to reduce noise and light pollution, as that will be the good
impact on the society. Load shedding helps in learning to plan ahead and know how
to self produce everything for ourselves. It helps us to be creative and learn the real
life solutions without power. It also helps us to try new things like reading story
books and playing games
Load shedding results in unsatisfied customers. Disadvantages of load shedding
can be the increase of crime due to darkness and the lack of job opportunities. This
can cause cell network to be down and there will be more traffic issues. Load
shedding affects small businesses as they gain less profit and it is going to charge
them a lot of money to buy generators and to connect solar panels. They can hire in
order to make the job done or render the services.
Load shedding affects big businesses as they need to buy petrol which cost a lot of
money. They will need to buy data as the Wi-Fi will be down and the network
coverage will be low. During load shedding people find it easier to steal cables. They
rob the shops because there is no light and signals that will make victims aware if
they are being attacked for example: there are no alarms that will ring to signalise
danger or attack. Load shedding helps us in learning to find benefits in adverse
situations.
This can give us a better overall approach to live and having a way to deal with the
stress. This could help us in learning from real life skills. It helps in opportunities for
our parents to tell us stories and have less stimulated by the media. Load shedding
can save water as there will be less bathing showering and washing. It helps us be
more aware of what people with no electricity permanently do. This gives us
opportunities to stay away from chaos and rethink strategies and think outside the
box.
This helps children to stay more focused as they can be more inward focused. This
however saves the loss of electricity that will then want us to buy it frequently. This
helps us to spend more quality time together as a family and teaches us empathy. It
can also remove the problem of too many TV channels making us spoiled for choice.
Load shedding makes us more focused on budgeting and more creative, saving and
investing.
It helps us in cleaning our minds and find it easier to try being more, sufficient kids
learn to sleep without their night light as all the TV games even learn to accept
things the way they are.
The other disadvantage of load shedding is that electricity can cause electrical
shocks when coming back with much force then many people get shocked with
electricity. That’s more dangerous because some people can’t get help faster. Load
shedding is a good opportunity for people to steal cables and sell them to scrap
yards and get money. It can affect people who are used to technology as they will
have to buy expensive fossil fuels.