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Category Archives: Physical Asset Management
Physical asset management is the management of fixed assets such as equipment, plant, buildings, and infrastructure throughout their entire lifecycle. It involves activities such as maintenance, repair, upgrades, and end-of-life disposition of the assets. The purpose of physical asset management is to prolong asset life and keep them in good condition. It also requires implementing controls on purchasing, deployment, tracking and maintaining.
NERSA’s role in South Africa’s electricity sector is pivotal, yet increasingly contested. As the regulator, it must balance utility sustainability with consumer protection, but inefficiencies, opaque processes, and inconsistent decision-making have eroded trust. A critical examination reveals the urgent need for reform—strengthening transparency, aligning with global best practices, and ensuring that regulation drives stability, efficiency, and fairness across the energy landscape.
Best Practices, Power Quality Consulting, Power Quality Matters, Power Quality Monitoring
The Ghost in the Machine
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Best Practices, Power Quality Consulting, Power Quality Matters, Power Quality Monitoring
The R100-Million Battery Blunder
18
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Best Practices, Power Quality Consulting, Power Quality Matters, Power Quality Monitoring
The Low-Inertia Trap
17
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Best Practices, Consulting Services, Power Quality Consulting, Power Quality Monitoring
Rebirth of Modern Power
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As South Africa’s electrical grid shifts away from centralized, coal-fired thermal generation toward non-synchronous renewable energy sources, it faces an immediate, existential structural vulnerability: the systemic depletion of power system inertia.
The decommissioning of massive, synchronized spinning generator rotors removes the physical, electromechanical buffer that has historically stabilized the transmission network. While utility-scale Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) are critical components of a modern grid mitigation strategy, relying on them as a drop-in replacement for physical inertia introduces a catastrophic protection gap. This briefing addresses the structural mechanics of a Rate of Change of Frequency (RoCoF) Surge and details why digital response times cannot outrun the immediate physics of an inertia-starved power system.
Best Practices, Consulting Services, Power Quality Consulting, Power Quality Matters, Power Quality Monitoring
The Anatomy of a Grid Emergency
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Best Practices, Power Quality Consulting, Power Quality Matters, Power Quality Monitoring
The Ghost in the Grid
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Jun
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