South Africa has some of the highest electricity tariffs in the world with many of it's coal fired power stations aged and inefficient. The South African grid suffers from regular blackouts due to an overloaded grid network. The country's old grid network has failed to meet the demand of a growing population as it's for this reason that we continue to get blackouts due to the system being overloaded or due to unscheduled maintenance .Â
With the world moving towards smarter grids, we risk falling behind in the race towards digitization and the digital transformation of energy resources. In my shared article, I demonstrate how the South African grid can overcome its current and future grid management problems using digitalization and IOT.
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