Eskom threatens Johannesburg with power interruptions over R4.9-billion unpaid bill

Jan said:
Joburg hits back at Eskom threats

"Eskom's approach of 'pay now and resolve disputes later' in its dealings with the City of Johannesburg can no longer go unchallenged," the metro stated.

"There is also an option of IGR to resolve intergovernmental disputes which Eskom keeps disregarding."
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Does the metro not have the same 'pay now and resolve disputes later' approach?
 
Jan said:
Joburg hits back at Eskom threats

"Eskom's approach of 'pay now and resolve disputes later' in its dealings with the City of Johannesburg can no longer go unchallenged," the metro stated.

"There is also an option of IGR to resolve intergovernmental disputes which Eskom keeps disregarding."
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The fck? Pay now, "resolve" disputes later is EXACTLY what every p03s municipality practices when it comes to tax payers accounts. African p03s logic at its finest. Rules for thee.....naaiers. pity eskom hasn't the balls to carry out it's threats.
 
Lupus said:
Still works out a bit more pricier to run the generator, though my last calculation was at R24 a liter last year when I ran it 20 hours across 17 days.
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How did you do that calculation if I may ask? And what size generator do you have?

We still have no mains supply and the weather is not looking promising for PV generation so I may need to run the generator today to heat geysers and charge batteries. I still need to figure out how though as our inverter doesn't see the generator feed properly...
 
Lupus said:
You'd have to go back to 1923 to ask that question, that was when Escom was founded, plus the removal of municipality power stations was done under the NP government.
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question means more now, and isnt Kelvin power station privately owned?
why cant COJ simply decide okay, cut us off, we will buy up all the transmission towers and substations, tender up some companies to run our own power stations, and say f--you Eskom,

or is this just another ANC mess thats only getting smellier and messier as time goes on.
 
Jet-Fighter7700 said:
this is what happens when you have only 1 electricity supplier for the entire country,
they threaten when their bribes arent paid on time,

why do we only have 1? legitimate reason or just the ANC being the ANC
that kept telkom and its madness around forever.
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When the whites were in charge this resulted in the cheapest electricity in the world.

Yes, I'm a racist.
 
Neuk_ said:
How did you do that calculation if I may ask? And what size generator do you have?

We still have no mains supply and the weather is not looking promising for PV generation so I may need to run the generator today to heat geysers and charge batteries. I still need to figure out how though as our inverter doesn't see the generator feed properly...
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For mine it was size of tank, cost to fill tank, time run, what was powered during the time it was run.
So a tank in December cost me R550, it runs about 2.5l per an hour at 80% load so you'd get 9 to 10 hours at that. So around R55 an hour to give out at max 5.5kw.
The smaller 2kva generator I had was around a liter an hour.
 
Jet-Fighter7700 said:
question means more now, and isnt Kelvin power station privately owned?
why cant COJ simply decide okay, cut us off, we will buy up all the transmission towers and substations, tender up some companies to run our own power stations, and say f--you Eskom,

or is this just another ANC mess thats only getting smellier and messier as time goes on.
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It is privately owned, but it only does 250MW at most which is not enough for JHB, plus it is contracted to supply Eskom when needed already strangely enough not CP. Also there are two OCGTs in JHB as well.
 
Neuk_ said:
How did you do that calculation if I may ask? And what size generator do you have?

We still have no mains supply and the weather is not looking promising for PV generation so I may need to run the generator today to heat geysers and charge batteries. I still need to figure out how though as our inverter doesn't see the generator feed properly...
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Why don’t you have mains supply?
 
Athos said:
When COJ overcharged me for electricity (44k in one month) they threatened to switch me off. Then told me I had to pay the amount while the dispute was being resolved. Love that when the same thing happens to them they react the same way I did. Dumb mfers.
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COJ tried that with me with a 90K bill once, I laughed at them in go get rekt.
 
Lupus said:
For mine it was size of tank, cost to fill tank, time run, what was powered during the time it was run.
So a tank in December cost me R550, it runs about 2.5l per an hour at 80% load so you'd get 9 to 10 hours at that. So around R55 an hour to give out at max 5.5kw.
The smaller 2kva generator I had was around a liter an hour.
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Please repeat experiment after converting to LPG.
 
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