Charged for going solar.

[AlphaJohn]

Guess South Africa not alone?

 

[AstroTurf]

Next they will apply a salt tax.

 

[Scooby_Doo]

Next they will apply a salt tax.

Makes sense if we introduce NHI.

 

[Zophos]

That's why, when you do go solar, you do it for yourself, no grid tied BS. Screw Governments, money grabbing idiots....

Battery Pack and off grid for the win. Use your EV as Battery backup for house, and, if you need grid power, it comes from you EV battery charged at public charger from the grid.

In 10 Years from now, switch from EV to Hydrogen...

 

[Benedict A55h0le]

That's why, when you do go solar, you do it for yourself, no grid tied BS. Screw Governments, money grabbing idiots....

Battery Pack and off grid for the win. Use your EV as Battery backup for house, and, if you need grid power, it comes from you EV battery charged at public charger from the grid.

In 10 Years from now, switch from EV to Hydrogen...

Just like in SA, yes, the best option for people is the option that removes government as much as possible. Go off-grid water and electricity and stop paying the government what they want you to pay them. In SA it makes no sense to go hybrid/grid tied, it is just a big "tax me more" sign to governments.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Just like in SA, yes, the best option for people is the option that removes government as much as possible. Go off-grid water and electricity and stop paying the government what they want you to pay them. In SA it makes no sense to go hybrid/grid tied, it is just a big "tax me more" sign to governments.

Its ok, the DA will invent an Electric ERF rating value and just add that to your bill anyway.

 

[AstroTurf]

Makes sense if we introduce NHI.

was a reference to Gabelle. (The gabelle was a very unpopular tax on salt in France that was established during the mid-14th century and lasted, with brief lapses and revisions, until 1946.)

 

[Benedict A55h0le]

Its ok, the DA will invent an Electric ERF rating value and just add that to your bill anyway.

If I am off-grid for water and elec I will not be paying what they want me to pay. I will decide what they deserve and if they don`t like it they get nothing. They work for me, I don`t work for them.

 

[ToxicBunny]

If I am off-grid for water and elec I will not be paying what they want me to pay. I will decide what they deserve and if they don`t like it they get nothing. They work for me, I don`t work for them.

Yes you will or they will attach your property for outstanding rates...

Trust me, they work for you but they have your bank account and property by the short and curlys.

 

[Benedict A55h0le]

Yes you will or they will attach your property for outstanding rates...

Trust me, they work for you but they have your bank account and property by the short and curlys.

Need to defend my property from them then, put my $$$ in the couch, and go out with a bang.

 

[Benedict A55h0le]

Yes you will or they will attach your property for outstanding rates...

Trust me, they work for you but they have your bank account and property by the short and curlys.

They can`t even evict squatters do you really think they will evict me for an outstanding rates? Like Soweto gets its debt written off yet I will be evicted? That will not happen.

 

[ToxicBunny]

They can`t even evict squatters do you really think they will evict me for an outstanding rates? Like Soweto gets its debt written off yet I will be evicted? That will not happen.

Of course they will.. you're middle class and an easy target.. you will be out on the streets while the city enjoys the profits from your property for decades to come.

 

[Benedict A55h0le]

Of course they will.. you're middle class and an easy target.. you will be out on the streets while the city enjoys the profits from your property for decades to come.

I am planning to become indigent soon. I was indigent once it was great.

 

[ToxicBunny]

I am planning to become indigent soon. I was indigent once it was great.

Doubt you'll pull that off if you have solar on your property... you'll fail the means test.

 

[Benedict A55h0le]

Doubt you'll pull that off if you have solar on your property... you'll fail the means test.

I don`t have solar yet, I will receive my solar system from the DA after I become indigent again.

 

[ToxicBunny]

I don`t have solar yet, I will receive my solar system from the DA after I become indigent again.

Oh no, then you won't.. the DA only cares about the poor for Facebook and Instagram posts, and I doubt you'd qualify for that.

 

[Benedict A55h0le]

Oh no, then you won't.. the DA only cares about the poor for Facebook and Instagram posts, and I doubt you'd qualify for that.

Where did you hear that? The DA takes care of the poor, I was much better off as an indigent than a middle-class tax cow. Got free stuff and if I used too much I only paid 20% of the middle-class price. I didn`t even have my electricity box wired for unlimited free electricity, but that option is also there.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Where did you hear that? The DA takes care of the poor, I was much better off as an indigent than a middle-class tax cow. Got free stuff and if I used too much I only paid 20% of the middle-class price. I didn`t even have my electricity box wired for unlimited free electricity, but that option is also there.

Oh no, that option doesn't exist anymore, haven't you been paying attention.

You must pay now baba.

 

[Benedict A55h0le]

Oh no, that option doesn't exist anymore, haven't you been paying attention.

You must pay now baba.

I am an experienced indigent, and I know other indigents who knows how to hotwire a prepaid meter. They might throttle my indigent water connection a bit, but that is still ok, it just takes a bit longer to fill up the bath.

 

[Iwojima]

Sounds like an additional availability charge. i.e. you may choose not use grid power but provision of it comes with a cost.

I don't disagree with that principle, but there should be way to opt out if you genuinely have no use for grid.