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EE Business Intelligence cordially invites you to an online webinar on:
Virtual wheeling: From pilot to platform - risks, rewards and realities in making Virtual Wheeling work for you.
DATE: Thursday 5 June 2025.
TIME: 10h00 to 12h30, South Africa time (GMT+2)
PLATFORM: Zoom Webinar 1000
COST: No cost, free-of-charge, all welcome
Hosted by:
· EE Business Intelligence
Supported by:
· Eskom Distribution
· Discovery Green
· Mezzanine
· Cresco
· SOLA Group
Register to attend the webinar here
Download the presenter biographies here
Presenters:
· Presenter 1: Mutenda Tshipala, Senior Manager: Strategy Development, Eskom Distribution.
· Presenter 2: Andre Nepgen, CEO, Discovery Green.
· Presenter 3: Jacques de Vos, CEO, Mezzanine.
· Presenter 4: Shirley Salvoldi, Specialist Consultant, Cresco.
· Wrap-up and conclusion: Jonathan Skeen, Head of Commercial Division, SOLA Group.
Background, purpose and synopsis
Following successful piloting, Eskom has recently announced Virtual Wheeling as an available product and service offering to off-takers connected to either Eskom or municipal networks and supplied at high-, medium- or low-voltage.
The Virtual Wheeling Platform was co-developed by Eskom and Vodacom subsidiary, Mezzanine, to address the complexities of delivering renewable energy to Vodacom’s extensive network of over 15,000 low-voltage sites across 168 municipalities.
While leaving existing contractual, metering and billing arrangements with the Eskom or municipal distributors in place without change, the Virtual Wheeling Platform enables a customer to obtain rebates for energy purchased from a renewable energy generator or trader.
This enables a wider range of companies, supplied by Eskom or municipal distributors, to access cleaner, renewable energy sources at reduced cost. This supports sustainability initiatives while reducing the customers’ carbon footprint and contributing to the stabilisation of the grid without the need to install on-site renewable energy solutions.
On 12 October 2023, EE Business intelligence hosted webinar to introduce Virtual Wheeling to electricity customers. On 30 January 2024 this was followed a further webinar on the concept of Token Wheeling to address some of the issues arising with Virtual Wheeling.
Now that Virtual Wheeling is broadly available as a product and service offering from Eskom, it was felt it would be useful to conduct a further webinar to explain exactly how Virtual Wheeling works, the practicalities of implementation, and the limitations and risks involved.
Target audience
· Policy makers, government officials, regulators and standards bodies.
· Leaders and decision makers in business, manufacturing, industry and mining.
· Engineers, technologists, technicians and ICT professionals.
· Development finance institutions, commercial banks, investment funds and financiers.
· Renewable energy IPPs, developers and EPCs.
· Electricity generators, transmission system operators, market operators and distributors
· Municipalities, electricity utilities, Eskom and other state-owned enterprises.
· Economic, legal, financial, accounting, consulting and planning professionals.
· Organised labour, NGOs and civil society.
· Universities, researchers and academia.
Programme
10h00 – 10h10: Welcome and contextualisation: Chris Yelland, EE Business Intelligence.
10h10 – 10h30: Presenter 1: Mutenda Tshipala, Eskom Distribution.
10h30 – 10h50: Presenter 2: Andre Nepgen, Discovery Green.
10h50 – 11h00: Comfort break.
11h00 – 11h20: Presenter 3: Jacques de Vos, Mezzanine.
11h20 – 11h40: Presenter 4: Shirley Salvoldi, Cresco.
11h40 – 11h55: Wrap-up and conclusions: Jonathan Skeen, SOLA Group.
11h55 – 12h25: Q & A session: Facilitated by Chris Yelland.
12h25 – 12h30: Thanks and closure: Chris Yelland.
Register to attend the webinar here
Download the presenter biographies here
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