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City of Cape Town to reward residents and businesses who allow their electricity to be cut off

Cape Town city officials want to transform residents and business into so-called "Power Heroes".

Doctor Mahlaule by Doctor Mahlaule
2022-10-04 11:24
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Image from Twitter: @geordinhl

Geordin Hill-Lewis unveiling a project that will see residents turning off their electricity voluntarily and receiving a compensation. Photo via Twitter: @geordinhl

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The City of Cape Town has issued a new tender to establish ‘third party’ aggregators to reward residents and businesses who allow their electricity to be turned off to reduce consumption.

The system will see customers being rewarded for voluntarily reducing their power usage at certain times when the city’s power generation is constrained.

Cape Town city officials want to transform residents and business into so-called “Power Heroes”.

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The Metro will now issue a tender for third parties to incentivise households and commercial entities to reduce the electricity constraints by 60 megawatts on the local grid.

It’s similar to a programme currently being rolled out in the United Kingdom (UK).

According to the city, when usage needs to be cut, the aggregators would switch off agreed-to non-essential electrical equipment that certain Capetonians said they could- this could be done remotely via installed smart devices.

The incentives and rewards offered by the aggregators are to be determined by them, said the city, as it hopes to save at least 60MW using this system.

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“At the heart of this new intervention is the conviction that small actions can lead to big impacts,” said Cape Town’s mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis.

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“These ‘Power Heroes’- those who chose to have their power cut- will help the city to protect customers from the higher stages of Eskom’s load shedding in particular.”

If this new project works, Cape Town may avoid further stages of power cuts.

Source: Business Tech, Eyewitness News, image from Twitter: @geordinhl

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Doctor Mahlaule previously worked as a Freelance Journalist at Find-it SA where he was responsible for writing news articles and sharing them on social media platforms. Doctor Mahlaule holds a Diploma in Journalism, BA in Communication Science and a BA Honours in Media Studies. Doctor began his journey as a knowledge Management and Communications Intern at Zenex Foundation. He was responsible for support in event management, social media, website maintenance, writing and brand management. On weekends Doctor attends prison ministry and shares the scriptures with inmates at Krugersdorp prison and plays soccer in the afternoon on some weekends. He has a passion for reading and writing and enjoys going out with friends and socialising in his spare time. He has a one-year-old son and is planning on getting married soon. When asked about what keeps him going, he said: “My family keeps me going. I’m the man I am because I come from a loving home. I have a very supportive family who always encourages me to keep pushing hard.”

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