The City of Cape Town has announced the launch of its electricity wheeling pilot which it says will help it diversify its electricity supply going forward.
Wheeling is a process where the electricity that is owned by a third-party supplier is ‘wheeled’ over Eskom and the city’s grid to the end consumer.
Hill-Lewis added that the city was working on a number of initiatives to ensure the city moves away from Eskom and load shedding. The third parties will need to have generators with a capacity of more than 1 MW that can connect to the city’s grid, he said. She said that the traditional power delivery model that the City of Johannesburg has been relying on, is being disrupted by technological developments related to new systems and that it cannot assume anymore that power will be solely generated by Eskom.
The upgrading of informal settlements would address the challenge of access to a modern thermal energy carrier, for cooking and space heating.
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