Fines for Power (Ab)users

Just went to buy leccie - prepaid.
Got my 50 free units.

So, I suppose the poor (read: mostly ANC voters), are not going to have to cut down 10%? Or that 50 would have been 45...
 
But... what about people who've moved? I wasn't even in the country in 2006/7, so how can they measure my previous usage? It's not fair to measure it against the previous tenant in my place.

And as mentioned here before - what about people who are legitimately using more power, but not wasting (eg. opened a home office, had a baby, got a roommate)? And people who even then were using as little as possible, and don't have any spare to cut down on?

The whole thing is just insane.
 
CathJ said:
But... what about people who've moved? I wasn't even in the country in 2006/7, so how can they measure my previous usage? It's not fair to measure it against the previous tenant in my place.

And as mentioned here before - what about people who are legitimately using more power, but not wasting (eg. opened a home office, had a baby, got a roommate)? And people who even then were using as little as possible, and don't have any spare to cut down on?

The whole thing is just insane.
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When this power thing happened,i immediately switched over to energy savers.

I am saving all i can already.

When they start monitoring my usage will they take my current usage?.

If they do, i am in serious trouble.

I think i must re-install my old globes, just for in case.
 
CathJ said:
So am I... but I don't think it helps any. I'm sure they still keep a record of usage for each unit.
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And even easier to do :(
Meter readings are prone to error - buying a unit pre-paid is accurate and spot on.
 
To hand out fines they would first have to measure each household's usage with something resembling accuracy.

Our bills fluctuate by a factor of 2. Sometimes its 800 units sometimes its 1500 units. And thats not winter heating causing that. It's just totally arbitrary and I'm fairly sure actual household usage is not fluctuating like that. My doctor told me he recently got an electricity bill of R20k for a single month.:( Took a couple of months to make eskom understand that it is a *house* not an industrial complex.

It's such a freakin disincentive to save energy if one makes a huge effort to save electricity and then the bill claims you used twice as much.:sick:

I reckon we give the Eskom dudes their bonuses but deduct 5% from their total remuneration for every day that a part of SA gets loadshed. THAT is performance linked remuneration.:cool:

CathJ said:
what about people who've moved?
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I'm guessing they'll extrapolate it from your neighbors. Or they'll give you an arbitrary number.
 
My uncle got a bill for R48K for one month.
When he told them it must be wrong they demanded he pay first!

Bunch of w@nkers.
 
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