A great degree of previous uncertainty over South Africa’s renewable energy procurement programme has made many international players shaky about investing in the sector. However, this situation was resolved recently when the South African National Energy Regulator (NERSA) concurred with the Department of Energy’s (DoE’s) proposal to abandon the renewable energy feed-in tariff (REFIT).
ABB disconnecting circuit breaker’s (DCB) have proved to be a revolutionary concept for improving substation availability and reliability while significantly lowering environmental impact and substation footprints of high voltage switchgear.