Councils want monopoly over electricity delivery in South Africa

[Mystic Twilight]

Who are they going to buy the electricity from when Eskom wont supply because they haven't paid.

Wasn't there a court case where they established eskom can't cut off the municipality?

 

[Gazg]

How so

The sales of electricity and their subsequent markups after purchasing electricity from Eskom, will come directly to them, including any big industry that falls in that Municipality.

 

[R13...]

Correct........it was actually a concept named REDS......Restructure of Electricity Distribution. There was a lot of talk, but that was about it. I think the stumbling blocks amongst other things were compensation for assets and loss of revenue for Eskom.

Regional, not restructure.
Electricity is a goodly source of income for the council that's why they want to control it. Which is bad for us as they don't use the revenue to look after the infrastructure.

 

[deesef]

So we will have to pay them for the power that our solar panels produce! Yay...

 

[ToxicBunny]

Regional, not restructure.
Electricity is a goodly source of income for the council that's why they want to control it. Which is bad for us as they don't use the revenue to look after the infrastructure.

I think its a 6 of one half a dozen of the other really...

As screwed as Durban is, they do still generally look after the electrical infrastructure mostly... if only because there are some very big boy industries in the city that keep them on their toes on that front.

So as always its a case of accountability really, when there is some accountability then things do kind of get done in sort of the right way.

 

[SilverCode]

Corrupt municipalities aside, the good thing about the municipalities being in control of the electricity distribution is they can then potentially buy from independent power producers.

If the local distribution is controlled by Eskom, then non-corrupt municipalities are going to have a hard time getting anything other than Eskom power onto their grid.

Let the municipalities control their own grid and buy from whoever they want. If they fall into arrears, then Eskom can shut them off and Eskom can argue in court that they aren't denying people of a basic human right, because there are many other independent power producers the defunct municipality can buy from.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Corrupt municipalities aside, the good thing about the municipalities being in control of the electricity distribution is they can then potentially buy from independent power producers.

If the local distribution is controlled by Eskom, then non-corrupt municipalities are going to have a hard time getting anything other than Eskom power onto their grid.

Let the municipalities control their own grid and buy from whoever they want. If they fall into arrears, then Eskom can shut them off and Eskom can argue in court that they aren't denying people of a basic human right, because there are many other independent power producers the defunct municipality can buy from.

Except you're thinking of Eskom as this big monolithic entity (which it still is to some level, but is separating).

The distribution stuff will be a seperate entity from generation in the near future apparently, and at that point they can buy power from IPPs as distribute in the local area potentially (I am generally ignoring all the complicated technical stuff with that statement though)

 

[JayM]

JHB City Power is currently dealing with more power outages in JHB than they can handle. My old place in Bryanston has been without power for 48h and no one has even managed to get to the location of the fault let alone diagnose and fix it. Direct Eskom areas in JHB (like my current place) seem much better managed.

 

[Corelli]

Its more a push from the DA led municipalities, where they will own all the infrastructure, so they they can choose their own provider other than Eskom. Same with the fight against Metrorail. Metro has been given a deadline in which to fix up their train service, if they dont, they are out and a new provider would be installed.

This is great news for South Africa as Eskom (the cash cow of the ANC) may be on their way out.

Was Mybroadband recently taken over by IOL? Its chucking out a lot of propoganda stories and not many factual.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Its more a push from the DA led municipalities, where they will own all the infrastructure, so they they can choose their own provider other than Eskom. Same with the fight against Metrorail. Metro has been given a deadline in which to fix up their train service, if they dont, they are out and a new provider would be installed.

This is great news for South Africa as Eskom (the cash cow of the ANC) may be on their way out.

Was Mybroadband recently taken over by IOL? Its chucking out a lot of propoganda stories and not many factual.

Could you completely misread reality anymore if you tried, and you do try quite often.