The wheeling and trading of electricity produced by third parties into the national grid is a complex issue that requires frameworks and grid capacity building, State-owned power utility retail pricing corporate specialist Shirley Salvoldi has said.
She spoke during a webinar on the topic of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s announcement that the licensing-exemption threshold for distributed generation projects would be increased from 1 MW to 100 MW, and how this could benefit South Africa’s commercial and industrial sectors.