Rural Maintenance has slashed Frankfort's load-shedding

[Jan]

Frankfort cuts down load-shedding — despite having to switch off solar panels

Parts of Frankfort in the Free State have been able to avoid most load-shedding in the past few months thanks to residents and businesses contributing their self-funded excess battery and diesel power capacity to its grid.

The town's Mafube Municipality has been using Rural Free State — a division of Rural Maintenace — as its private electricity distributor and maintainer for several years.

 

[TheChamp]

I hate it when articles are heavy on emotions and lacking in factual details.

 

[Quicks]

Just shows if you you really want to fix something it always possible. Just the ANC is too useless to do anything right.

 

[epah]

First it was Clarens, now it is Frankfort, seems like the Free state is the place to be. Now if only they could get their road situation fixed.

 

[RaptorSA]

I hate it when articles are heavy on emotions and lacking in factual details.

Like your voting habits and comments.

 

[RaptorSA]

So a dubbel f*k jou.

 

[DapperDanMan]

I hate it when articles are heavy on emotions

#TRIGGERED!

 

[WAslayer]

I hate it when articles throw the slightest bit of shade at the ANC, implicit or not...

FTFY...

 

[Sapphiron]

The lesson here is install batteries. so you can be independant of Eskom.

 

[Carl_Johnson]

The lesson here is install batteries. so you can be independant of Eskom.

No, the lesson here is that we should ALL vote better this coming election to get the corrupt cretins out of power so that our country can start rebuilding again.

 

[Sapphiron]

No, the lesson here is that we should ALL vote better this coming election to get the corrupt cretins out of power so that our country can start rebuilding again.

I say do both.

even if the ANC is replaced, it will take a generation to fix the mess.

 

[nicroets]

3.7kWp is barely enough to power a kettle...

 

[Parched]

3.7kWp is barely enough to power a kettle...

Yep, in previous coverage they said 3.7MWp which seems more reasonable.

Frankfort solar power provider is lying, says Eskom

The utility has also claimed it offered to buy the company’s excess electricity.

mybroadband.co.za

 

[DapperDanMan]

Huge win for Free State town that battled Eskom over solar power plant

Big win for Free State town that battled Eskom over solar power plant A privately-run power distributor providing electricity to three small towns in the Free State has significantly reduced load-shedding implemented against its customers over the past year. The company — Rural Maintenance's...

mybroadband.co.za

To hell with the ANC!