Eskom wants huge price increase

[Sl8er]

What happens to the people who use illegal connections? I mean, do they get fined? Are they arrested?
What if someone were to make an illegal connection in a suburb? What would happen to the person?
What would happen if people started hooking it up like they do in the townships -and obviously not pay / refuse to pay?

 

[ellyally]

Just a matter of time before solar is cheaper than Eskom , the spiral is in full swing .
Less and less people will be paying and the spiral to higher prices until it is Unaffordable .
Anarchy and chaos is just around the corner unless some thing drastic is not done now .
The only way to stop electricity theft is to supply all subscribers with 380 volts and fit a step down transformer at the subscribers premises in high theft areas .

And theft will only increase with price increases... the theft needs to be addressed

 

[Milano]

What happens to the people who use illegal connections? I mean, do they get fined? Are they arrested?
What if someone were to make an illegal connection in a suburb? What would happen to the person?
What would happen if people started hooking it up like they do in the townships -and obviously not pay / refuse to pay?

Well it's going to happen. Electricity theft can only increase from here on. More and more people in previously compliant suburbs will start bribing meter readers or bypassing meters. As long as eskom is negligent, both operationally and in it's accountability, it is actually stealing from us. This will lead to lower customer compliance. You can only screw the compliant customers so long, before they bite back.

 

[borga]

#GetTheSowetoMoney

Recently saw that many in Soweto are willing to pay, if Eskom offers them a flat rate, they have a figure or R300-R400 in mind per month, and just who will cover the rest? As I don't think that amount will cover the cost, and then they don't have any incentive not to use as much as possible electricity.

 

[supersunbird]

Recently saw that many in Soweto are willing to pay, if Eskom offers them a flat rate, they have a figure or R300-R400 in mind per month, and just who will cover the rest? As I don't think that amount will cover the cost, and then they don't have any incentive not to use as much as possible electricity.

Uncapped electricity... after they reach FUP limit they need to be throttled hehehe. To get proper uncapped electricity they would need to buy a business uncapped account.

 

[Milano]

Recently saw that many in Soweto are willing to pay, if Eskom offers them a flat rate, they have a figure or R300-R400 in mind per month, and just who will cover the rest? As I don't think that amount will cover the cost, and then they don't have any incentive not to use as much as possible electricity.

Yeah they already have uncapped electricity for free. Fsckin Saboteurs.

 

[Utterly Confused]

We used 804kwh last month and paid R1243.17 (incl VAT) for that. How much does you 500kwh work out at?

Going to try to lessen that, expend a small amount of capital on making the lights that are on most (some all night) LED.

You know what's funny? The more we reduce, the less VAT government also gets... great news

No You're wrong! the government will just take a leaf out of Eskom's book and put up the VAT. We can't win.

 

[supersunbird]

No You're wrong! the government will just take a leaf out of Eskom's book and put up the VAT. We can't win.

No problem with that, VAT is much fairer...

 

[GhostSixFour]

1150 gets me about 980kwh on city power prepaid. I use about 850 a month, building up a buffer.

Until your meter fscks out and they won't replace the extra electricity that you had on there. Happened to a neighbour, bout 6 months worth of electricity and then the meter went a week later. Had to buy it all again - this time at a higher tariff because they were classified as heavy users. Fsck Eskom.

 

[AthenianOwl]

25% Stressful times ahead!

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

Like the beggers that see absolutly nothing wrong while wearing an armani suit.....

Eskom can go fsuk themselves like scumral and every other goverment service all except SARS which is hyper hyper efficent at taking your money......

 

[mintydroid]

Having a fridge and geyser is a luxury nowadays

 

[Milano]

Raise VAT to 50 percent and give free capped power to all. At least SARS isn't broken yet. Modern, clean offices while the ANC collects revenue. Can't say giving is easy for them as the rest of zumament, like police stations, home affairs, hospitals, and so forth are filthy, broken offices filled with half dead zombie employees.

 

[Utterly Confused]

No problem with that, VAT is much fairer...

That's true at least everyone pays.

 

[markings]

We installed a heat pump for the hot water. Saves approx 4kWh per day. It also bring sus below the usage threshhold where free electricity is supplied. It works out like this
4kWh * 30 days = 120kWh, times R2/kWh = R240 plus the free 60kWh @ R2/kWh = 120. Total saving R360 pre month.

 

[markings]

When we renovated we installed a heat pump for the hot water. Saves approx 4kWh per day. It also brings us below the usage threshhold where free electricity is supplied. It works out like this
4kWh * 30 days = 120kWh, times R2/kWh = R240 plus the free 60kWh @ R2/kWh = 120. Total saving R360 pre month.