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

Priapus said:
Why don’t you have mains supply?
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Issues with the 88kV feed in to the Parkhurst substation yesterday affecting Parkhurst, Parktown North, Craighall Park, etc. That was fixed last night and we had mains back for around 25 minutes before there were other faults which affected a smaller portion of the area but repairs are ongoing.
 
semaphore said:
Nah, I sent them pictures of the meter which showed them that their estimate was off by almost 25,000 units.
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You are still paying the R1k grid tax.

That is unexemptable.

Lets see if this gets deleted:
 
Neuk_ said:
Issues with the 88kV feed in to the Parkhurst substation yesterday affecting Parkhurst, Parktown North, Craighall Park, etc. That was fixed last night and we had mains back for around 25 minutes before there were other faults which affected a smaller portion of the area but repairs are ongoing.
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Can you give me a plain as day no questions asked answer about what your per kWh cost is with running your genny as intelligently as possible?
 
VooDooC said:
And again punishing the people who pay for the crimes of the municipality.
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honestly it's also punishing the municipality. Electricity sales are a significant portion of their budget. Threatening to cut that off is the only way to get them to stop regarding the Eskom bill as something optional for payment.
 
This country needs a benevolent dictator (democracy isn't working, or not fast enough).

/wingnut puts up hand.


Give me 10 years and you will all be living in utopia in the end with free electricity and stuff is so cheap we won't even have to work to be able to buy food.
 
wingnut771 said:
No genny?
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We have a 15kVa diesel generator but other than it uses around 2l/h at 50% load I couldn't tell you how much it costs to generate a kWh using it. Excluding the two ovens and underfloor heating, our entire house is connected to our inverter, so if there is an outage we use mainly PV to run heavy appliances like the kettle, geysers, air fryer, etc. and I manage our load as best I can. I ran the generator yesterday for the first time in probably 6 months because we ha no mains and I hadn't run it in probably 6 months but we used zero kWh from it.
 
Neuk_ said:
We have a 15kVa diesel generator but other than it uses around 2l/h at 50% load I couldn't tell you how much it costs to generate a kWh using it. Excluding the two ovens and underfloor heating, our entire house is connected to our inverter, so if there is an outage we use mainly PV to run heavy appliances like the kettle, geysers, air fryer, etc. and I manage our load as best I can. I ran the generator yesterday for the first time in probably 6 months because we ha no mains and I hadn't run it in probably 6 months but we used zero kWh from it.
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How much does it cost to fill the tank? How big is the tank
 
Neuk_ said:
We have a 15kVa diesel generator but other than it uses around 2l/h at 50% load I couldn't tell you how much it costs to generate a kWh using it. Excluding the two ovens and underfloor heating, our entire house is connected to our inverter, so if there is an outage we use mainly PV to run heavy appliances like the kettle, geysers, air fryer, etc. and I manage our load as best I can. I ran the generator yesterday for the first time in probably 6 months because we ha no mains and I hadn't run it in probably 6 months but we used zero kWh from it.
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As an experiment. Top up the tank to the brim.

Drain battery to 1%.

Charge battery to 100% with genny using most effic9ient high IQ settings.

Then top up tank again to the brim.

Winning.
 
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wingnut771 said:
They went from the cheapest in the world to the most expensive without batting an eyelid.
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And then?

What’s that got to do with CoJ not living up to their obligations?

PS Eskom is not the most expensive in the world. UK is way more expensive.

Neuk_ said:
Issues with the 88kV feed in to the Parkhurst substation yesterday affecting Parkhurst, Parktown North, Craighall Park, etc. That was fixed last night and we had mains back for around 25 minutes before there were other faults which affected a smaller portion of the area but repairs are ongoing.
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Oh that same old issue. How’s the solar doing?
 
Corelli said:
Ironic they go after Joburg but did they turn off Bloemfontein?

However, the per capita debt obligation of the Free State is the highest, with their R22.6 billion bill equating to approximately R7,700 for each of their 2.9 million population.

The Free State also has five municipalities owing over R1 billion, with Maluti-A-Phofung Local Municipality’s account standing at over R8 billion.
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It's really not that complicated, you have two people who owe you money, one has a formal job and a steady income that goes into his bank account every month, the other does informal jobs, they might have the money but most of it is paid in cash.

Who are you most likely to recover your money from without too much hassle between the two as a legally compliant debt collector?
 
wingnut771 said:
As an experiment. Top up the tank to the brim.

Drain battery to 1%.

Charge battery to 100% with genny using most effic9ient high IQ settings.

Then top up tank again to the brim.

Winning.
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I would if I could, the way everything is set up at the moment, I can't use the generator to charge batteries.
 
Priapus said:
And then?

What’s that got to do with CoJ not living up to their obligations?

PS Eskom is not the most expensive in the world. UK is way more expensive.



Oh that same old issue. How’s the solar doing?
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Its an impossible task because of the fact that we have to most expensive anc electricty in the world while being in one of the poorest countries in the world at the same time.

Just give the country back to the whites and I'll promise you that in 10 years time, we will be back to where we were in 1994 with the cheapest power and sporting a GDP growth of 6%.

A growth like that will solve any reparations of the previously disadvantaged.
 
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