The Electricity Retain an eye on Board (ECB) had a stakeholder workshop for the review and substitute of the Distribution Grid and Connection Code on the Windhoek Nation Membership and Resort final week.
At some stage in his opening remarks, ECB Chief Executive Robert Kahimise outlined that the goal of a Distribution Grid Code is to construct the foundations and procedures that enable folk or entities to make exhaust of the distribution community and permit the distribution community to be planned and operated safely, reliably, efficiently and economically.
“The Distribution Grid Code applies to all distributors, embedded generators, end-user customers, retailers, re-sellers and any other entities with equipment connected to the distribution network,” he said.
He also illustrious that the Distribution Grid Code became promulgated in 2018 and has now not been reviewed since and there became heaps of adjustments and technological advancements within the electrical energy provide trade which amongst others include the introduction of the MSB Mannequin.
Moreover, the improvement of the original Connection Code which became partly developed all the contrivance by the most modern review of the Transmission Grid Code in 2023 also may maybe well grasp to be concluded.
The board acknowledged that each one connection points including those contained within the Distribution and Renewable Vitality Grid Codes, will be integrated in a original Connection Code to align with SADC Regional Codes and to be conscious international finest practices. Therefore, promulgation of the Renewable Vitality Grid Code became withdrawn and cancelled.
The Connection Code incorporating the Renewable Vitality Grid Code and containing connection points from the Transmission Grid has since been drafted and is now being reviewed at the side of the Distribution Grid Code to include distribution connection points.
Furthermore, these documents had been previously shared and discussed with the ECB and the Grid Code Advisory Committee, and inputs bought had been integrated within the drafts and presented to the broader stakeholders on the workshop.
Kahimise also mentioned that they notion to post the final Distribution Grid and Connection Codes to the the ECB all the contrivance by November 2024 for approval and subsequent submission to the Minister of Mines and Vitality and ensuing promulgation by the Minister of Justice.
