{"id":5184,"date":"2023-09-14T10:28:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T08:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mype.co.za\/business\/?p=5184"},"modified":"2023-09-14T10:28:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T08:28:24","slug":"collaboration-to-save-investment-and-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mype.co.za\/business\/collaboration-to-save-investment-and-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Collaboration to Save Investment and Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe partnership between the Nelson Mandela Municipality\u2019s Electricity Directorate and the Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber continues to deliver innovative solutions to help mitigate against the risks of loadshedding on large manufacturers.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Chamber CEO Denise van Huyssteen with NMBM\u2019s Executive Director for Electricity and Energy Luvuyo Magalela.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Chamber CEO Denise van Huyssteen, said that if it were not for the implementation of the 24 hour stage 5+ loadshedding schedule for qualifying industry, due to the extreme and sustained loadshedding over the past few months, a number of manufacturers may have closed their doors by now.\u00a0\u201cWe regard this intervention as critical in saving investment and jobs in Nelson Mandela Bay.\u201d<\/p>\n

Currently 39 major manufacturing companies participate in the 24 hour schedule, which enables a less disruptive approach to loadshedding.\u00a0\u201cThe companies volunteer to load-shed for 24 hours in a row and then operate for a couple of days in a row, depending on the level of loadshedding.\u201d<\/p>\n

The manufacturers who are currently on the 24 hour schedule have to meet certain eligibility criteria such as having a clean feed in place from the sub-station to their manufacturing operations, using a minimum of 0.7MW of electricity and must be registered on the ECWIN system used by the Municipality to ensure compliance to the schedule is monitored.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe commend the Electricity Directorate on their openness to partner with business in working together to save investment and jobs in Nelson Mandela Bay,\u201d she emphasised. \u201cWe value this relationship and look forward to continuing to work with them to find ways to support more businesses to find more tenable solutions to deal with loadshedding.\u00a0Equally important it is vital that this collaboration is also directed at finding ways to urgently rein in electricity inefficiencies and losses, so as to ensure the medium to long-term sustainability of the Municipality.\u201d<\/p>\n

Van Huyssteen said that the Chamber was committed to continuing to work with the Electricity Directorate to find solutions to a range of other issues such as improving efficiencies, preventing electricity losses and outages and supporting additional power generation opportunities.\u00a0\u201cAn important intervention in place is Adopt A Sub-Station, which enables Chamber members to extend their private security to surrounding sub-stations so as prevent cable theft and the vandalism of sub-stations.\u00a0To date 20 sub-stations have been adopted by our members and so far, this has proven to be effective.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Chamber\u2019s Renewable Energy<\/a> Cluster, has attracted the interest of more than 20 companies, which combined account for 20% of the metro\u2019s electricity consumption.\u00a0Together they represent a consolidated customer base for a renewable energy<\/a> power producer which will install well over 200 MW of power generation,\u201d she emphasised. \u201cThere is scope for additional businesses to join at a later stage. Given that new energy generation capacity is being created, this project will have a positive influence on mitigating load shedding in the medium term.\u00a0We value the Electricity Directorate\u2019s support of this initiative and for<\/p>\n

having embraced the concept of Wheeling to allow end users to procure IPP power through approved traders.\u00a0There is opportunity for the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality to become a municipality of choice for IPPs and traders.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe partnership between the Nelson Mandela Municipality\u2019s Electricity Directorate and the Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber continues to deliver innovative solutions to help mitigate against the risks of loadshedding on large manufacturers.\u201d Chamber CEO Denise van Huyssteen, said that if it were not for the implementation of the 24 hour stage 5+ loadshedding schedule for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[540],"tags":[551,564],"class_list":["post-5184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-business-news","tag-nmbbc","tag-nmbm","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mype.co.za\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mype.co.za\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mype.co.za\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mype.co.za\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mype.co.za\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mype.co.za\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5186,"href":"https:\/\/mype.co.za\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5184\/revisions\/5186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mype.co.za\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mype.co.za\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mype.co.za\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}