The City of Joburg will start punishing households with smart meters from July 2024 using load limiting if it finds that they are consuming a “high” amount of electricity.
City Power seemingly attempts to obfuscate the impact of the plan by stating that load limiting would “further assist customers in saving energy without switching them off completely.” Some might argue the practice of load reduction, aimed specifically at areas where numerous households are complicit or aware of illegal connections, has some justification.
He said it would be reasonable for South Africans to suppose that load limiting will come to an end if load-shedding is suspended, but pointed out that the smart meters they let utilities like City Power and Eskom install in their homes would remain. To implement load limiting, a distribution utility must be able to measure households’ power consumption at all times.
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