Festival chief executive Tony Lankester said yesterday a plan had been devised between Eskom and the Makana Municipality to exempt a large area from outages during the festival.
“We’ve achieved that by reallocating loads to different parts of the city and by spreading any load-shedding requirements across the whole month of July, prioritising different areas at different times.”
This meant areas not affected by load-shedding during the festival would compensate areas that do after the festival.
On top of that, festival venues outside the central area would have back-up generators.
“All of our venues have emergency lighting and our crews have been trained in evacuation procedures in the unlikely event this becomes necessary.”
Lankester said a joint operations committee had been meeting and would continue to do so throughout the 11-day festival.
