Eskom arguing for higher fixed capacity charges

Daniel Puchert

Daniel Puchert

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Eskom's plan to punish solar power users

Eskom's proposals for radical electricity pricing changes would result in many households with lower consumption — including those with solar power — paying substantially more for electricity than they do now.

MyBroadband's calculations show the latest proposed changes would have seen the bills of households consuming anything less than 700kWh increasing substantially with Eskom's latest price hikes.
 
If this passes, then NERSA is a scam.

There is no way to construe a move like this as just. Fairness will always matter. And, the reality is that thousands upon thousands of people did the country, its economy and every citizen, the entirety of government and even Eskom, a massive favor by reducing their Eskom consumption. By each individually investing SERIOUS money into backup power. The problem they have now is a much better problem to have than the disaster they were facing before. When load shedding was killing the country, and they were burning their stations to a crisp in trying to keep up.

I'm sure anybody could take an injustice like that to the highest courts in the land, and win. I mean the government even encouraged micro-generation uptake, and continue to do so. Because the country has targets it wishes to reach in this regard. It's policy, and Eskom's coercive threats are contradicting them. So if Eskom isn't ready to reimburse people for their capital expenditure, then they should stuff these notions where the sun doesn't shine.
 
F1 Fan said:
Maybe this is good, will encourage people to install solar. The sooner the masses rely less on Eskom, the better. It's need to die a slow death.
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Except places like ours, where we do not have place/space to install solar, nor Jo-Jo tanks to give us a few days water buffer.

And I believe all of the Units use less than 700 units a month.
 
The power utility will gradually adjust this until it collects 100% of the generation capacity charge through fixed fees instead of variable costs.
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Look I understand fixed fees for transmission and network but for generation? That is just nuts.

We really need time of use charges to cover peaking plants and batteries. But fixed charges? That will distort the market to an insane level.
 
LOL @ this joke
I wonder if this will be forced on everyone including the millions in shacks that the goverment relies on to stay in power
 
Fixed fees and household levies are the new pipe to the trough. All money for noting.
 
This was the same crap Telkom use to pull, pile on various base "connection fees". If there was competition, it wouldn't last in that market, much like Telkom's pricing model of old.
 
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