direct lines

A regulatory framework for direct electricity lines linking producers and customers has been finalized after a series of necessary revisions were approved by the board at RAAEY, the Regulatory Authority for Waste, Energy and Water.

A direct line, according to the authority’s framework, refers to an electricity line that connects an individual generating plant to an individual customer, or an electricity line that connects an electricity producer with an electricity supply company, which, in turn, directly supplies its own facilities, subsidiaries and eligible customers.

Major-scale consumers such as industrial producers hope direct electricity lines may offer solutions that would overcome grid issues and end their reliance on the grid, thereby ensuring smooth operations for their production plants.

Officials at RAAEY, the Regulatory Authority for Waste, Energy and Water, and power grid operator IPTO are examining adjustments and changes needed to the existing legal framework so that direct-line operations can be incorporated into the country’s grid.

Direct lines are electricity lines that connect individual power plants with individual customers, or electricity lines that connect individual power producers with individual power suppliers directly supplying their own facilities, subsidiaries or selected customers.

At present, direct lines are not incorporated into transmission systems or distribution networks.

Direct lines, according to experts in this domain, can contribute to the decongestion of the grid and, to a certain extent, be part of the solution to the problem of RES grid-injection cuts as they bypass already saturated electricity networks either for transmission or distribution purposes.

Direct power lines promise to rid producers of grid issues

Changes needed to incorporate direct lines into grid