GEORGE NEWS - George Mayor Leon van Wyk was a panellist at the weekly digicon of Western Cape Premier Alan Winde on Thursday 9 March, to feature and discuss the municipality's plans for becoming energy resilient and other related initiatives.
This was the second digital media briefing in a string of upcoming weekly briefings on energy-related issues and George was the first municipality invited to address the digicon.
A special focus was on the George Municipality's energy projects. Van Wyk was accompanied by Municipal Manager Dr Michele Gratz and Director of Electrotechnical Services Bongani Mandla.
Van Wyk spoke about the municipality's intentions regarding energy efficiency and demand management through reduction of own consumption, self-generation (municipal and private), small-scale energy wheeling, enabling small-scale embedded generation (SSEG) and restructuring of tariffs.
"We are extremely proud to have had the opportunity, as George Municipality, to be able to present on the digicon that was hosted by the Premier of the Western Cape," said Van Wyk.
"It is important that local municipalities do, look and see what they can do to assist their citizens in fighting off the effects of load-shedding. These are major effects on all municipalities and we are very glad that we've been able to share work that we are doing in combatting this issue.
"Let's all work together to see what we can do to sort out this problem and the challenges that lie ahead."
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