Eskom has run a successful pilot of virtual wheeling. But what is it, and how could it change South Africa's energy industry?
a successful pilot of virtual wheeling, which will allow companies with multiple offtake sites to connect to generators using the Eskom or municipal grids.
Wheeling across high- and medium-voltage lines has been the focus of Eskom’s wheeling strategies to date, but the proposed introduction of virtual wheeling, a new product offering by Eskom, opens opportunities for companies with multiple smaller and low-voltage loads scattered across various geographies in South Africa to participate in the market.Wheeling is the delivery of energy from a generator of renewable energy to an end user situated in another area.
The traditional wheeling methodology works for larger buyers. However, it needs to be adapted for two primary reasons.The first is that the traditional wheeling mechanism is designed to service large consumers of electricity, typically one generator selling to one or two buyers. It does not adequately cater for several low- to medium-voltage consumers.
Instead of processing a credit to an account for each offtake site of a buyer for the electricity sold by a private generator, a buyer must settle its Eskom bill in full and at the end of the month a single refund will be processed to one account of the buyer. A consolidation exercise will be undertaken through Eskom’s virtual wheeling platform to measure the energy produced by generators and used by buyers.
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