Advice needed on Residential Solar Options

[rrh]

I still need to convert to prepaid, but CoJ are but all useless during this period.

I converted to CoJ prepaid earlier this year.

All it took was a few emails: the process itself was absolutely painless.

Plus a few more to repair the snafu by the contractors ... but even then it was handled professionally by City Power.

 

[AchmatK]

Jumping in here to say this is almost exactly our setup, but with 7kw of battery. We barely use grid power anymore - just the peak time (6-11pm). Then batteries carry us over to sunrise.
We save R1500 a month.
Def worth it. 10/10 would do again.

And next year after Eskom's increase you'll save R1 800 per month, and the following year over R2 100, and the year after that, over R2 500, etc.

The sooner anyone that has the space to install solar, the sooner they start saving and Eskom is only pricing themselves out of the market. Even taking 50% of your consumption to solar will mean significant savings.

 

[semaphore]

I converted to CoJ prepaid earlier this year.

All it took was a few emails: the process itself was absolutely painless.

Plus a few more to repair the snafu by the contractors ... but even then it was handled professionally by City Power.

Cool, will try next year. Dealing with government always makes my blood pressure rise.

 

[mpdjhb]

And next year after Eskom's increase you'll save R1 800 per month, and the following year over R2 100, and the year after that, over R2 500, etc.

The sooner anyone that has the space to install solar, the sooner they start saving and Eskom is only pricing themselves out of the market. Even taking 50% of your consumption to solar will mean significant savings.

Really rainy days when my solar geyser is dismal and my solar electricity production is low, I turn off the pool etc to cut back on power consumption. Even then the physical pain I feel spending 20kwh (about R50) per day on electricity makes me "naar". Even if I never break even (highly unlikely) the sheer pleasure I feel from not giving money to Eskom and CoJ is worth every cent.

 

[rrh]

Cool, will try next year. Dealing with government always makes my blood pressure rise.

Generally speaking I agree.

That said, they proved me very wrong ... count this as my Scrooge-type penance