Bidirectional meters not necessary to sell electricity back to the grid

Daniel Puchert

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Big lie about feed-in meters for selling electricity

South African municipalities' insistence that customers buy and install an approved bidirectional meter to sell back electricity to the grid might be nonsense.

Instead, they could use an additional one-way meter to measure electricity fed back into the grid in addition to their regular meter that records grid power consumption.
 
Not sure why these meters cost so much.
Here is a SMART bidirectional, WiFi pre-paid digital meter from AliExpress for R224.91

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Only ZAR224.91 per unit
10+ pieces, extra 10% off

There are other more traditional models with keypads, keycards, Smart on AliExpress for less than R2000
 
Most of the guys I know had to jump through red tape and hoops to feed back in Cape / Gauteng.

Maybe it's easier in KZN.
The red tape exists because they want to protect their cash cow.

If you have spinning disk meter then just ignore red tape and cap usage to 100 units.

KZN has its own red tape also where you have to pay per kW capacity.
 
Not sure why these meters cost so much.
Here is a SMART bidirectional, WiFi pre-paid digital meter from AliExpress for R224.91

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Only ZAR224.91 per unit
10+ pieces, extra 10% off

There are other more traditional models with keypads, keycards, Smart on AliExpress for less than R2000
certification , the accuracy on these may be crappy
kinda like a fluke vs cheap multimeter
the one will show actuall and the other will show you what melenials would reffer to as their truth :)
 
Useless trying to feed back into the Grid.

Get more batteries and use those instead.
but yea there was an article of a guy in cape town ROI his system in lke 18mnths by using this grid feed
if you still use any eskom get a battery agreed
 
How many inverters support two feeds?
 
Its cheaper to feed back into the grid.
Not the way it's set up.

certification , the accuracy on these may be crappy
kinda like a fluke vs cheap multimeter
the one will show actuall and the other will show you what melenials would reffer to as their truth :)
That comes down to calibration. The technology is cheap as chips. Somewhere between certification and approval someone's making a pretty penny.

He swallowed a whole mine...
ftfy
 
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