Expensive Eskom solar rules could be illegal

wingnut771 said:
Are you not trying to save leccy?
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Nope, I live in an area that has faults at least once a week for a couple of hours to days, thanks to them adding 2 suburbs on to our substation, until they fix the overhead lines.
Those suburbs have no regards of usage...
 
Lupus said:
Nope, I live in an area that has faults at least once a week for a couple of hours to days, thanks to them adding 2 suburbs on to our substation, until they fix the overhead lines.
Those suburbs have no regards of usage...
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You can do 2 things at once.
 
Zuner said:
It's been CPT weather here recently, very annoying.
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Yeah but this is generally normal for CPT, you're going into winter. JHB is normally dark and cloudy between Nov through to Mar, not this far into April :-(
 
wingnut771 said:
Connect geyser, get more batteries and change 6.5kW to 3kW silent.
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I would need to replace my batteries completely, they don't bring mine into the country, unless I approach Telecos and get them from there.
 
Lupus said:
I would need to replace my batteries completely, they don't bring mine into the country, unless I approach Telecos and get them from there.
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Forget about smart inverter connection. Just use voltage and busbar.
 
Lupus said:
Lately up here in GP, 3 days as currently we've had a few days of heavy cloud cover where generation is sometimes down to 10%
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Its rare to get absolutely nothing over the entire day so if you scrape together a few kWh here and a few there you should be able to make it through 3 days.

lets say you average 10kwh per day of use then if you have 20 kWh of usable backup plus the PV managed 3kwh per day you essentially cover 3 days.
 
B-1 said:
Its rare to get absolutely nothing over the entire day so if you scrape together a few kWh here and a few there you should be able to make it through 3 days.

lets say you average 10kwh per day of use then if you have 20 kWh of usable backup plus the PV managed 3kwh per day you essentially cover 3 days.
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Oh I've had days where I've had 1.5 generated from the sun for the whole day :-( the clouds were thick like freaking dark dark, no sun at all.
 
CoCT wrote to a gent in Constantia to say they deemed that his solar installation (12 panels, 7.2Kw inverter, 10 kWh battery) did not meet their requirements. He had a COC issued by a licensed electrician

In Nov 2023 CoCT threatened to cut his supply unless he did not comply (without giving specific reasons)

He has no intention of making any alterations as all the pre- October specifications have been met
 
chrisc said:
CoCT wrote to a gent in Constantia to say they deemed that his solar installation (12 panels, 7.2Kw inverter, 10 kWh battery) did not meet their requirements. He had a COC issued by a licensed electrician

In Nov 2023 CoCT threatened to cut his supply unless he did not comply (without giving specific reasons)

He has no intention of making any alterations as all the pre- October specifications have been met
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If I was Elon rich I would buy a house in CoCT just so that I can go to court and take them to the cleaners.
 
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