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Today (Wednesday 14 June), nearly a week after the Helderberg was battered by flooding due to torrential rains which resulted an overflowing Lourens River to burst its banks, catastrophe has struck once again.
The City’s draft Energy Strategy is out for public comment until 31 July 2023. In an incredibly fast changing energy market in South Africa, this strategy document details how the City will develop and evolve its energy utility in the years ahead. This includes the City’s most important current energy priority - ending load-shedding in Cape Town, with short-term plans to protect against the first four stages of Eskom blackouts by 2026. This is alongside a roadmap to 2050 outlining how ...
The City of Cape Town aims to reduce the turnaround time of applications for small-scale embedded generation (SSEG) systems by allocating more resources to deal with the applications, switching to an online application system and simplifying the customer experience. With the big uptake in solar photovoltaic (PV) and batteries owing to loadshedding, there has also been an increase in fly-by-night operators. Many of these systems are not wired correctly or are inferior, contributing to the extended power outages the city is experiencing following load-shedding. The city wants to ensure customers...
A handful of municipalities have completed an update required to prevent all their prepaid electricity meters from becoming non-functional next year. Most authorities though, including Eskom, haven’t or have hardly started the process.
Fifteen companies will participate in a pilot project to trade electricity using the City of Cape Town's distribution infrastructure.