Eskom answers questions about Nersa's solar power user tariff plans and grid connection fees

[Jan]

Charging solar power users higher prices in South Africa — Eskom's plans

Eskom answered questions about its plans to charge a separate monthly grid connection fee and its dispute with Nersa over potentially discriminatory tariffs for solar power users.

 

[borro]

It’s for your health.

 

[AlphaJohn]

If anything SA should follow the rest of the world and sub Solar... not TAX it.

If more people go solar there would be less strain and also less LS.

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

If anything SA should follow the rest of the world and sub Solar... not TAX it.

If more people go solar there would be less strain and also less LS.

They still want their money.

Anyway good luck to them. They will have to charge everyone a "grid connection fee" without discrimination...

 

[porchrat]

The power utility said that those who use solar power generate most of their electricity during the day, resulting in Eskom ramping up more rapidly to meet the evening demand.

This has significant adverse effects on the power system, Eskom explained.

While solar power systems could use battery packs to store excess energy for night-time usage, this raises the price of solar installations considerably.

What a load of garbage. Solar installations can only reduce load on the grid.

Nobody runs just the solar panels and doesn't have some sort of storage system for evenings and cloudy days.

This is just going to lead to people permanently disconnecting their grid feed.

 

[Danie_V]

We've long been City of Cape Town a fixed connection charge for the basic connect, irrespective of being a solar user or not. But it does sound very much like the Post Office = can't provide mandated service = loses revenue = abuses it's monopoly status.

 

[mpdjhb]

Only in Eskom's world can they try and spin that solar users use more grid power.
The result of a failed education system.

 

[BuckRogers]

This happens because the bottom of the class goes into the public sector

 

[hj007]

If anything SA should follow the rest of the world and sub Solar... not TAX it.

If more people go solar there would be less strain and also less LS.

The conflict of a bankrupt public entity - cant let it go and cant let others compete.. This is Telkom 2.0.. Watch them privatize Eskom to a foreign buyer but give it a 10y monopoly contract.

 

[mypetcow]

Sounds to me like there will be a number of guerrilla solar installations popping up in the near future…

 

[Benedict A55h0le]

This is why investing in a grid tied system and registering your system is a bad idea in SA. Actually this is just a symptom of a larger issue making any investment in SA a bad idea, off-grid included. They will always have new ways to extract more tax while things fall apart. I think they are already implementing a ban on not having a grid connection. Their reason is the next owner might want it, so you must also have it and pay for it. Socialism at its finest.

 

[deweyzeph]

Anyone who can come up with a way to hide a solar installation so the authorities can't find it will become a very rich person in South Africa.

 

[AlphaJohn]

Anyone who can come up with a way to hide a solar installation so the authorities can't find it will become a very rich person in South Africa.

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[Utterly Confused]

Only in Eskom's world can they try and spin that solar users use more grid power.
The result of a failed education system.

Must be run by the 30 percenters.

 

[KleinBoontjie]

Sounds like bribe money, to me.

Also, Punish the good citizens that doesn't steal electricity and idolize the ones that does steal electricity.

 

[LCBXX]

Anyone who considers this acceptable needs to be shot.

It is a classic encroachment tactic to get a greedy ANC foot in the door which will lead to solar-levies, etc, etc , etc.

 

[grok]

Also, Punish the good citizens that doesn't steal electricity and idolize the ones that does steal electricity.

100% ANC culture.. always the inverse of everything that will allow escaping the swamp and progressing towards something better

 

[siraman]

What next? Tarrif the air we breathe? Signs of a failed state and it's dysfunctional entities.

 

[Stonemason]

We've long been City of Cape Town a fixed connection charge for the basic connect, irrespective of being a solar user or not. But it does sound very much like the Post Office = can't provide mandated service = loses revenue = abuses it's monopoly status.

Do the people of Cape Town demand refunds on the connection charge every time there is loadshedding? After all, during loadshedding you are being disconnected from the network

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

Do the people of Cape Town demand refunds on the connection charge every time there is loadshedding? After all, during loadshedding you are being disconnected from the network

It's a once off fee, not billed monthly. Eskom is looking for a recurring payment...