Electricity wheeling is the act of transporting electricity from a generator to a remotely located end-user using an existing distribution or transmission system. This may also be done across multiple distribution networks, such as through a national utility company and/or a local municipality. We are starting to see more exciting developments around wheeling in South Africa. Wheeling has been a topic of discussion for a long time now in South Africa, and therefore it is good to finally see more projects being implemented.
Wheeling allows locations with ample space to be utilized to unlock significant opportunities for increasing generation from distributed renewable plants in places that would not normally need that generation capacity at a particular time, and then feed that into the grid…
Read the full article originally published at cleantechnica.com.