Company offering renewable energy cheaper than Eskom's grid

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Company offering renewable energy cheaper than Eskom's grid

Energy Exchange of Southern Africa (EXSA) is offering South African businesses renewable electricity that is typically cheaper than using the traditional Eskom grid.

The company, which is owned by Johann Rupert’s Remgro and Rand Merchant Bank (RMB), connects licensed green energy producers with companies that want cleaner power on a more predictable price path.
 
wingnut771 said:
What about Eskom's line fees?
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Well if I go of that estate I was at. The company pays the line fees for their "micro-grid" to be connected to Eskom. The residents pay the private company. Maintenance etc is done by the private company. I dont know if this is how they would implement others but thats how it was explained to me by one of the guys there.
 
denmendez65 said:
Well if I go of that estate I was at. The company pays the line fees for their "micro-grid" to be connected to Eskom. The residents pay the private company. Maintenance etc is done by the private company. I dont know if this is how they would implement others but thats how it was explained to me by one of the guys there.
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Yes, but this is not a micro grid, they are wheeling power from across the country.
 
wingnut771 said:
Yes, but this is not a micro grid, they are wheeling power from across the country.
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Fair point. If Eskoms line charges for guys like this is say 50 cents. And you generate at 50 cents also, and charge the customer 2 rand a kWh. Then you still would be cheaper than Eskom if Eskom needs to charge R3.5/kWh to meet their operating costs.

They are separate if you remember. Eskom is not doing transmission anymore. So its competing with private for generation. The grid is another entity.
 
denmendez65 said:
Fair point. If Eskoms line charges for guys like this is say 50 cents. And you generate at 50 cents also, and charge the customer 2 rand a kWh. Then you still would be cheaper than Eskom if Eskom needs to charge R3.5/kWh to meet their operating costs.

They are separate if you remember. Eskom is not doing transmission anymore. So its competing with private for generation. The grid is another entity.
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Separate in theory. Don't think its happened yet, or else we would be getting bills from transmission company.
 
wingnut771 said:
Separate in theory. Don't think its happened yet, or else we would be getting bills from transmission company.
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I am not sure if they have fully separated yeah. But I believe this was part of the reason for the separation.
 
denmendez65 said:
I am not sure if they have fully separated yeah. But I believe this was part of the reason for the separation.
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Yes, the reason for the separation was so they can have 3 ceos and 3 boards. Jobs for pals.

Kinda like CoJ with 6 or 7 CEO's.

BTW, Helen wants to keep these ceo's if she becomes mayor.
 
ThinkCentre said:
What if a metro started doing business with them?
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This is where my mini-grid future comes from. Houses in the suburbs with all their solar can wheel power to the city who then sells it to the grannies in the flats cheaper than eskom.
 
wingnut771 said:
This is where my mini-grid future comes from. Houses in the suburbs with all their solar can wheel power to the city who then sells it to the grannies in the flats cheaper than eskom.
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This is the way! When loadshedding was really bad i would take an extension cord and throw it over the wall for my neighbor to use, old tannie who needed to keep her TV on and be able to boil the kettle etc.

IMO its the only way poor areas can get actual free power, excess solar generates gets fed back directly to these areas. Eskom just needs to be relegated to transmission
 
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