TY - GEN
T1 - Emerging Role of Artificial Intelligence in Addressing The Electricity Crisis
AU - Mulongo, Ndala Yves
AU - Mushavhanamadi, Khathutshelo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 IEEE.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - South Africa is in the throes of a worse electrical energy crisis. The reason to this crisis is due to the South Africa's state owned electricity utility, which is facing a relatively close hurricane of an increasing energy supply shortage, compounded by Eskom's declining generation due to more unsustainable ageing power stations, leading to spiking electricity bills. These factors are causing havoc on the economy. With the country recovering from a COVID-induced economic downturn during the last Three years. The harsh truth of the situation is disturbing, with roughly weekly power outages. The key questions must be addressed: What has been done to remedy this situation? how can the government speed up the reform of the electricity sector? From this back rounds, this paper aimed at investigating the role of Artificial Intelligence in addressing the factors causing the power outages. The findings demonstrate that Artificial intelligence has the ability to enhance electricity efficiency, reliability, and transparency.
AB - South Africa is in the throes of a worse electrical energy crisis. The reason to this crisis is due to the South Africa's state owned electricity utility, which is facing a relatively close hurricane of an increasing energy supply shortage, compounded by Eskom's declining generation due to more unsustainable ageing power stations, leading to spiking electricity bills. These factors are causing havoc on the economy. With the country recovering from a COVID-induced economic downturn during the last Three years. The harsh truth of the situation is disturbing, with roughly weekly power outages. The key questions must be addressed: What has been done to remedy this situation? how can the government speed up the reform of the electricity sector? From this back rounds, this paper aimed at investigating the role of Artificial Intelligence in addressing the factors causing the power outages. The findings demonstrate that Artificial intelligence has the ability to enhance electricity efficiency, reliability, and transparency.
KW - Artificial Intelligence
KW - Load-Shedding
KW - South Africa
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85170648911&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/SmartNets58706.2023.10216210
DO - 10.1109/SmartNets58706.2023.10216210
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85170648911
T3 - 2023 International Conference on Smart Applications, Communications and Networking, SmartNets 2023
BT - 2023 International Conference on Smart Applications, Communications and Networking, SmartNets 2023
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2023 International Conference on Smart Applications, Communications and Networking, SmartNets 2023
Y2 - 25 July 2023 through 27 July 2023
ER -
