Eskom says that Free State town Frankfort cannot exempt itself from national load-shedding schedules as its privately-supplied solar power was not enough to meet its full demand.
Eskom says that Free State town Frankfort cannot exempt itself from national load-shedding schedules as its privately-supplied solar power was insufficient to meet its total demand.dismissing private power distributor Rural Maintenance’s application to continue implementing its own load-shedding schedule in the town while a dispute over the practice was before the National Energy Regulator of South Africa .
But Eskom said that Frankfort’s solar plants did not have sufficient generation capacity to cover all the town’s electricity needs during load-shedding. Eskom said that Rural Maintenance was required to abide by regulation NRS048-09 of the Nersa-approved National Code of Practice for Emergency Demand Reduction and System Restoration Practices.
This practice only allows a qualifying municipality to protect its critical loads, such as sewerage systems and water pumps, from interruptions. “The PV plant in Frankfort has no standby capability to offset the total demand; thus, the plant’s output forms part of the system base load and Frankfort remains subjected to load-shedding.”However, Eskom took issue when Rural Maintenance also started implementing, where they did not implement any load-shedding as per the approved schedules when their solar PV plant was in optimal operation.
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