KwaDukuza to install system to detect illegal electricity connections
KwaDukuza is hoping soon-to-be installed technology will close the gap on the around R100 million in annual revenue it says it loses through illegal electricity connections.
The municipality is acquiring a supervisory and data acquisition system known as SCADA.
Its functions will include detecting load imbalances, illegal connections and other issues on the network.
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The municipality says it will also be installing a new control room for its electricity department to accommodate SCADA.
"Currently, KwaDukuza has a manual system that works with a person physically finding a fault, whereas this system is going to tell us you have lost component A that supplies the CBD and that the issue, according of the system, is one, two, three," says spokesperson Sipho Mkhize.
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