Berg River farmers avoid loadshedding through pilot project with Eskom
In the Berg River Valley, along the aptly named Broodkraal feeder line around twenty farms, which include black economic empowerment (BEE) farms, growing a mix of table grapes, wheat and wine, have embarked on an experiment: in exchange for lowering their electricity usage when Eskom asks them to, they do not get loadshedding (power cuts).
It is called load curtailment, at a time
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