How Eskom split could bring end to load-shedding

None of this is in the ANC plan. Spinning tales and keeping things as they are, allows eating before the next election. Don't expect anything to change soon if at all.
 
fyniaina said:
Well I just read that the government is going to give back a percentage with a maximum of R15,000 for solar installations if you install your solar after the 1st of March.
I'm not smart but if there is anything I know about this government that actually applied to charge people R938 for using solar and been off the grid initially, there is no way they would just turn around and all of a sudden want to help people to install solar.
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Eskom talked about having a minimum fee. Entirely separate from whether someone decided to offer an extremely modest rebate limited to the cost of the solar panels. I'd still work on the assumption that some sort of minimum or availability fee will be introduced eventually. The time to do that is after many people have already installed their systems.

fyniaina said:
I think they're being smart about it in the sense that they cannot stop people from installing solar anyway so they want people to register with them by being greedy or thinking they're being helped by the government; and they'll give back the measly R10000 or so initially, that is if they don't just reject your application anyway.
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Getting a building request for a residential solar generation installation rejected seems unlikely. Registration though and standards compliance should be mandatory to ensure proper installations.

fyniaina said:
But what this will do is they will now have a registry of every person that installs solar panels and are now off the grid; and a couple of years or 3 years or 5 years from now; they will implement all of a sudden that they're charging you for using solar panels and being off the grid.
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Besides the fact that almost no-one is going to be going off the grid they don't need any registration process to detect who has probably installed a system. Anyone who has gone off the grid will certainly stand out. So there is no need to indulge in any conspiracy thinking on that front.

fyniaina said:
And because these dumb dumbs did not see it coming, the government knows that they install solar panel and they won't even be able to deny it. Catching
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Even if registration didn't exist it would be trivial to detect who has such systems installed. Both through their electricity usage and methods used to value houses for rates.
 
Just don't take lessons from Nigeria. Their power system seems to have become significantly worse since privatisation.
 
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