What are the benefits of smart grid technology in South Africa?

This has huge benefits for all South Africans and for our country. An additional societal benefit is the improvement to service delivery, particularly in municipalities. The introduction of smart grid technology is a key enabler for South Africa to achieve its proposed energy mix. Without smart grids large scale integration is impossible.

What is the South Africa smart grid vision?

The Vision forms part of a greater framework that is being developed by the South Africa Smart Grid Initiative to guide effective transition to a coherent, modernised national electricity infrastructure.

Is sanedi smart grids still relevant to South Africa?

The SANEDI Smart Grids team has taken the lead to update the current vision document to ensure it is still relevant to South Africa and the challenges the industry faces, as a lot has changed within the electricity supply industry in South Africa.

Should the South African grid be advanced?

It is proposed that the South African grid should be advanced in a similar fashion; not by gathering a collection of interesting technologies and calling it modern, or smart, or intelligent, but by first defining a vision and then building the construct of a grid that serves a defined purpose.

What are smart grid objectives?

At a high-level the smart grid objectives (refer Section 5.1) will serve as the metrics to track progress towards delivering on the South African Smart Grid Vision. But, it recognises that these metrics will be composed of several sub metrics that will require aggregation across industry sections and across entities/role players.

How will a smart grid impact the electricity industry?

The innovation and technology development due to a smart grid implementation may also spark a renewed interest in the electricity industry as a possible career opportunity, enticing new skills and employees into the market. Certainly a smart grid will require skilled people to manage the development and maintenance thereof.