A small farming town in the Free State is the centre of a landmark case for the future of IPP’s in South Africa.
Frankfort in the Free State has been experiencing less frequent load shedding thanks to an independent power producer in the area, Rural Maintenance.
Rural Maintenace, as well as the Mafube municipality’s business forum, is set to meet with Eskom and its representatives in the Johannesburg High Court today. Eskom is worried that this may open the floodgates for a whole array of towns wanting to bring private generation online, taking away revenue from the national power utility and causing an influx of private generation applications.
For example, said Bosch, if the nation was on stage 6 load shedding, larger users in the area would face a single nine-hour outage instead of two smaller instances, assisting smaller users. “We typically would put three megawatts on the grid, and we have to switch off one. Why, if we’re generating three and we have to switch off one, would we switch off the one? That benefit should go through to the community members,” Bosch said.
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