Bidirectional meters not necessary to sell electricity back to the grid

[wingnut771]

Not the way it's set up.

Durban have spinny disk meters and red tape that you can ignore.

 

[gotaway]

Useless trying to feed back into the Grid.

Get more batteries and use those instead.

Indeed, it is quite addictive NOT to suck on Eskom's electricity pipe

 

[Bad Ballie]

Its expensive because the ANC can mark the prices up and make a fortune off of you, same with the Tax man,.... Tax has become the main drive of the government, taking what isn't theirs and convincing you that somehow they can do so legally.

 

[Johnatan56]

Lol, spend tens of thousands on solar panels only to be paid 10c per kwh to help this monkeys a$s government by feeding back. Fck that. I would rather waste excess solar.

I don't see an issue with feeding back into the grid if have excess and can't store it in solar as it will just go to waste, even if it's free.
The issue is that you have to pay to be able to do so which then becomes a cost benefit analysis of does one produce enough to break even, so not going to bother sitting down and doing calcs for it.

City can handle the once-off cost for installing those meters as there should be enough users over time that can cross subsidize the cost that it ends up being fine, accept the free electricity (though not happening at R13k 2023 cost).

For like an hour even in mid winter (last week of June) our household in CT was producing 2kWh after batteries filled, just went to waste, in summer that's going to be way more, but not going to bother feeding back in due to not knowing if costs and stuff will go up, can't tell if weather every month will be good enough that won't pay out of pocket, etc.

 

[Neuk_]

Of course they aren't necessary, anything electrical can be bidirectional if you try hard enough.