Clarens becomes South Africa’s first town to manage load shedding.Facebook source
The impact of load shedding will be a thing of the past in the town of Clarens, following the transition to load curtailment. This concept is designed by the potential to reduce the power demand or electrical energy usage during the peak load periods.
The transition paves the way for residents to adopt smart city initiative with smart metering for residents of the tourist-attracting town. Eskom aided Clarens’ residents in the evolution from an art town to a smart town. Bibi Bedir, Eskom’s senior manager for retail in the Free State, said the concept was piloted in the same town before installation.
Bedir said the town already boasts an electrical vehicle charging station installed, as well as a well-diverse spread of small-scale embedded generators (SSEGs).
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