As if the tirade between ECG and GRIDCo goes on, the former decided to pack all its arsenals and let them out in one go. In its response letter to GRIDCo, ECG accused the operator of the National Interconnected Transmission System of sending out unnecessary load management requests.
This is in response to GRIDCo’s claim that ECG has often failed to comply with load management requests as the country experiences irregular load-shedding. GRIDCo said ECG’s failure to follow instructions on load-shedding threatens the integrity of the power system.
But ECG did not take kindly to that one as it accused GRIDCo of becoming a nuisance to customers with its frequent load management requests.
ECG’s response letter said “requests from GRIDCo for load management are no longer for emergency operations, but are made on a routine day-to-day basis, becoming an irritation and disturbance to customers.”
However, as the nation awaits a load-shedding timetable from ECG as advised by Parliament’s Energy Committee, the company assured GRIDCo of its full cooperation. It was quick to add that GRIDCo should send requests either 24 hours ahead of the expected implementation time or before “3:00pm for peak load and 4am for off-peak.”
“ECG wishes to state that we will always cooperate with all relevant stakeholders including GRIDCo in order not to jeopardize the stability of the Transmission system. We however wish to reiterate our request that the Notice to our System Operators for load management should be received before 3:00pm for peak load and 4am for off-peak load management or to be received 24 hours ahead in each case, as what is happening now is no longer an emergency operation but seemingly a routine daily activity,”