Eskom's big changes for electricity tariffs proposed

[holler]

Precisely. Before we all try to burn Eskom at the stake please chck that the Homepower tariff actually affects you. I would guess that it doesn't as most of us are neither on dual-phase (80A p.p aka. 32 kVA) or three-phase (60A p.p. aka. 25 kVA) connections. This tariff is for high-usage customers so we can all breathe a little easier.

Last I checked I'm on a 63A single phase breaker, i.e. a 14.49kVA connection which is far away from both 25 kVA and 32 kVA.

I suspect that the articles are deliberately obfuscating the impact on Homeflex users or municipalities... to elicit maximum outrage.

 

[Sledgehammer67]

What the fcuck?! So if you're energy independent, you must pay them?! So besides having holes in their arses, they also have holes in their heads?! Give me a fcucking break...

 

[Lupus]

What the fcuck?! So if you're energy independent, you must pay them?! So besides having holes in their arses, they also have holes in their heads?! Give me a fcucking break...

Read the reply above yours... This is for Eskom direct customers, if you're not an eskom direct customer you can relax.

 

[Botha22]

Read the reply above yours... This is for Eskom direct customers, if you're not an eskom direct customer you can relax.

I think municipalities might restructure their tariffs in line with whatever changes Eskom makes.

If I am on prepaid it seems I will end up paying less / not much change?

 

[Lupus]

I think municipalities might restructure their tariffs in line with whatever changes Eskom makes.

If I am on prepaid it seems I will end up paying less / not much change?

What eskom is charging the muncipalities doesn't change, only their tariffs they charge.

 

[OhYeah84]

Eskom tariff changes are literally a monthly thing now. So many changes, yet we hear of nothing being done to improve supply, root out the corrupt and prosecute them, what's being done for the prevention of sabotage at power plants etc.
It's all about the money and how they can screw the tax payer even more.

 

[OhYeah84]

Let's talk value for money....

How does Eskom justify R11,256 per year for some wires in an urban environment?

That's a massive rip off for infrastructure that's already paid off.

I'm shocked at Eskom's greed.

...and it's not like they're maintaining that at all. It's left to the municipalities to look after, and who really don't care 2 damns.

 

[Osiris123]

Clown world.

If IBT is deemed not equitable, with the reason given that the high users have to substitute the low users. If you have that view you must apply that same exact logic to progressive taxation, where the high earners have to pay the vast majority of taxes.

So if you scrap progressive taxation, to have 'simpler' more equitable taxation, please go ahead and scrap IBT.

 

[G.A.S]

High season = 1 June to 31 August. Peak / Standard / Off-peak as per attached table.

To be honest - the Homeflex option does not seem half bad in comparison. The fixed charge still seems a lot (from R560/m upward + VAT), but the offset rate makes matches the cost of buying for a change.

Not to mention the possibility to run high consumption devices during off-peak hours instead (e.g. geyser)

 

[richjdavies]

Eskom tariff changes are literally a monthly thing now.

Huh?
No ... Once per year. And news about them proposing new structures to keep you enraged... Every... Single...day...

 

[BuckRogers]

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High season = 1 June to 31 August. Peak / Standard / Off-peak as per attached table.

To be honest - the Homeflex option does not seem half bad in comparison. The fixed charge still seems a lot (from R560/m upward + VAT), but the offset rate makes matches the cost of buying for a change.

Not to mention the possibility to run high consumption devices during off-peak hours instead (e.g. geyser)

I wonder what the meter will set you back

 

[G.A.S]

I wonder what the meter will set you back

Now that is a good question.

 

[PsyWulf]

Higher electricity connection fees in South Africa

There’s been outrage from some quarters in South Africa about reports that the power utility Eskom and some municipalities intend to increase the connection fee for electricity users who also generate their own power.

businesstech.co.za

If businesses and wealthy households dramatically reduce their use of grid electricity there will be less revenue but also less scope to raise tariffs from the poorer remaining users. That is a deeply inequitable outcome which illustrates how flawed the policy process has been: no cost implications of these decisions has ever been published.

The financially unsustainable combination of grid defection and higher tariffs creates the so-called electricity utility death spiral. Under this scenario, the government and citizens either have to take on the costs or allow the utility to fail.

Since failure would have a disastrous impact on government’s broader ability to borrow, the costs will inevitably be transferred to citizens through higher taxes and public debt levels, or reduced expenditure on public goods and services.

This is where grid connection fees come in. Wealthy households and businesses that choose to generate their own electricity and ‘defect from the grid’ often stay connected so that they can use electricity from the public supply as a backup.

Put simply, they use the grid as insurance but no longer pay their fair share of the infrastructure, maintenance and other costs of maintaining an operational grid. Such costs have traditionally been covered by energy tariffs.