Makwarela said smart meters will also manage “load-limiting”, as an alternative to load-shedding, allowing your meter to switch you off if you are using too much electricity.
Eskom wants to put smart meters in every household in South Africa over the next four years.As South Africa fights a crippling power crisis, Eskom is hedging its bets on smart meters to help put an end to load-shedding.the failure of seven generation units.
“It’s a pricing signal, but what it does is you, as a customer, decide if it’s too expensive at this time, I can reduce my load; or when it’s cheaper I can cook. What we are saying is that if you consume electricity at a certain time, it becomes expensive and if you consume at a standard time it becomes cheaper,” said Eskom chief engineer Edison Makwarela.
Hilton Trollip, a fellow at the Global Risk Governance Programme at UCT and an independent consultant in energy research, toldThis grid will enable the sharing of moments of peak demand or low demand from customers and peak and low supply from variable power sources across a large area and among many people.
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