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Smart Zesa meters earmarked for heavy industries
08 May 2015 at 07:00hrs | Views
The Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company has said the 60 000 smart meters will only be used by heavy energy users as part of demand side management of power.
ZETDC managing director Engineer Julian Chinembiri said yesterday that smart meters were earmarked for heavy energy users because they show energy use patterns for consumption monitoring and control.
The country has capacity to generate an average of 1 100MW against requirement of about 2 200MW at peak periods of demand.
As if the generation deficit is not debilitating enough, an estimated 16 percent of the power sold to ZETDC by Zimbabwe Power Company is lost through technical and non-technical faults right to the point of consumption.
Engineer Chinembiri said that the intelligent metering system enabled industrial users to identify machinery unnecessarily consuming too much power, allowing heavy consumers flexibility to switch off such machinery.
He said industry accounted for 60 percent of ZETDC's revenue from the sales of electricity while domestic users accounted for 40 percent, an indication that energy consumption is skewed towards industrial consumers.
ZETDC managing director Engineer Julian Chinembiri said yesterday that smart meters were earmarked for heavy energy users because they show energy use patterns for consumption monitoring and control.
The country has capacity to generate an average of 1 100MW against requirement of about 2 200MW at peak periods of demand.
As if the generation deficit is not debilitating enough, an estimated 16 percent of the power sold to ZETDC by Zimbabwe Power Company is lost through technical and non-technical faults right to the point of consumption.
Engineer Chinembiri said that the intelligent metering system enabled industrial users to identify machinery unnecessarily consuming too much power, allowing heavy consumers flexibility to switch off such machinery.
He said industry accounted for 60 percent of ZETDC's revenue from the sales of electricity while domestic users accounted for 40 percent, an indication that energy consumption is skewed towards industrial consumers.
Source - The Herald
