Eskom wants to hike electricity prices even more

[Pho3nix]

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Where is this?

 

[wingnut771]

Where is this?

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[access]

so they thought they would shake it up a bit this season! snazzy

first the load shedding then the demands.

i guess asking first then extorting after didnt look to good.

 

[Mephisto_Helix]

it's linked to more money every time and government shuts up while the stupid taxpayer shells out, either paying the increase or spending thousands on alternatives, thinking it'll ever get better ........

 

[chrisc]

PV panels, batteries, inverters are only part of an energy saving plan. You cannot expect a return on your money in the short term

The geyser-type electric water heater consumes 70% of the electrical energy in the house
Therefore it would make sense to replace this with something more efficient
We have a superb South African product called "Geyserwise Plus" which will accurately monitor the water temperature in your tank, can switch the geyser on and off at pre-determined periods, always depending on the current water temp at the time and also switch on a pump to aid hot water circulation from a solar collector

I have given talks to U3A and similar clubs, explaining how it works, since many people don't have a clue

In summer, a 10-tube evacuated tube solar water panel can heat 150 litres of water by 50 deg in 4 hours, often reaching temperatures of 80 deg

So if the GW is set to switch on the geyser at 16h00 and the thermostat is set to 55 deg, it will not come on at 16h00 since the water is hotter than 55 deg

If you have a 200 litre geyser and have a 3-minute shower after dark, the water will probably only drop by 15 deg and will still be warm enough in the morning for another shower. Therefore the GW must not, in summer, turn on the element in the morning since by lunchtime the sun will have heated the water

Another consideration is a heat pump. This is basically a fridge in reverse and extracts heat from the local environment to heat water. About 300% more efficient than a geyser element

Other energy saving tricks are led lamps, insulation, draft exclusion and double glazing. Even lined curtains make a difference

 

[DreamKing]

scrap your monopoly laws, I support you eishkom to increase your prices up to 10000% or more.

 

[quovadis]

Maybe DFA should diversify into copper cabling and the guys at Altech can go to court to allow ECNS licensees to build their own power networks & generation capacity - One 63A power feed sounds about right to power the fibre router with each line install.

 

[MachoPants]

What can I pay off in 6 months before exit stage left?

As I only spend R500 a month on electricity, these R40 -R60k costs for solar are useless for me

 

[chrisc]

Instead of whingeing and complaining, why do we not get pro-active and fix the problem as we can under the current rules?

 

[quovadis]

Instead of whingeing and complaining, why do we not get pro-active and fix the problem as we can under the current rules?

Pray tell what you had in mind?

 

[SmartKit]

Pray tell what you had in mind?

I too am curious about "The *P*L*A*N*“

 

[zoozi]

Instead of whingeing and complaining, why do we not get pro-active and fix the problem as we can under the current rules?

You buying solar panels for me? Thanks man

 

[Pho3nix]

As I only spend R500 a month on electricity, these R40 -R60k costs for solar are useless for me

R500 over the year is R6000.
7-10 years ROI if electricity costs don’t increase

 

[wingnut771]

Instead of whingeing and complaining, why do we not get pro-active and fix the problem as we can under the current rules?

it's too late, about R500 billion too late.

 

[Tokolotshe]

Oh so that is why we are in the dark again.
Nothing like a bit of loadshedding to make people pay up

Right. Yet when I said it a while ago, the usual diversion/flaming team here tried making it off. Hell, this has become so predictable.

 

[zoozi]

"The national power utility wants an additional R5.4 billion to be allocated as a result of lower-than-predicted sales."
Load shedding by very definition reduces sales and forces people to use alternative measures to reduce it further, yet they have the balls to say this. The extortion of such a massive part of the economy is just disgusting, it's stunning how quickly this came out after load-shedding. Eskom, SAA, SAPO, SARS, SAPS, Denel, nothing will ever run efficiently in this place, buckle up, we've become a proper African country now.

 

[Eniigma]

Seriously it's time to start charging these eskom mofo's with treason and/or economic sabotage. The p.o.s. belong in jail or in front of a firing squad.

Anyone who is or has been involved with dodgy tenders & contracts, looting the coffers, or willful negligence and failing to maintain the infrastructure should be shot. It might sound extreme but the harm they have caused to this country and it's citizens and economy, it's not.

 

[Brenden_E]

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Interest rate 20.5%. Haha sheeeet. Gotta line the pockets of those fat bankers.

 

[Eniigma]

Instead of whingeing and complaining, why do we not get pro-active and fix the problem as we can under the current rules?

Pray tell how do we do this? I mean short of a bit of lynching of eskom management?

And don't come with some bs about putting in solar or something, that helps the one family who lives and owns the house... does sweet fanny adams for the millions who rent or don't own a house. It's a headache tablet, treating the symptom, not the cause.

 

[ShaunSA]

Don't stress folks. Jamnadas will ride in on his white steed and rescue us all