How much more Eskom Direct customers will pay from 1 April 2024

Cadres have to ensure they can afford the increasing costs of those eskom brooms
 
How do you go from cheapest and most reliable power producer to this. Literally give this incompetent government anything functional and they manage to absolutely destroy it. What's scary is that half the population vote for this and are happy to repeatedly vote them back into power and the ones that aren't, are jumping ship to an even worse alternative being EFF. Next election forecast is ANC loses minor support largest gain will be EFF > DA, we on a road to nowhere boys.
 
Update: I was at a installer's office, very nice place and very professional people. But they want R20K for the installation of evacuated tubes. How? I can't even finance that right now. So next I will be buying a heating element and connecting it to a cheap solar panel. If it can heat up water I can make a plan for something else.
 
The_MAC said:
We are inching towards a scenario where an Inverter and Panels will not be considered as backup power only, but as a prudent economical decision to manage runaway power costs, for both domestic and commercial customers..
Click to expand...
This.

Load shedding is nowhere as much of a risk as the economic collapse of Eskom. Which is going to happen.
 
This just kicks my urge to double battery capacity up a level.

According to my calcs, for me this means 0-600kWh will be R2.4544/kWh and > 600kWh will be R3,8758/kWh

Luckily these days I don't hit that second tier. It's ridiculous.
 
Last edited:
DrJohnZoidberg said:
I've been loading my prepaid meter up every month with the cheaper 600 unit blocks as I've hardly been using much Eskom power lately. Have over 2000 units now which will be handy for winter.
Click to expand...
Same, front loading for cheap to avoid paying more when consumption spikes...
 
Mike Hoxbig said:
Just some napkin maths based on some crud assumptions.

R3/kWh x 1,000 units a month x 12 months = R36,000 a year.

A R200,000 system with 4 batteries will pay itself off after 5.5 years. You should then get about 10 years of free power before you need to start replacing things.

This also keeps dropping as they keep increasing prices. 2 years ago the payback period was around 7 years when using a unit price of R2.40...
Click to expand...

Will there still be an SA in 10-15 years?
 
Flanders said:
This just kicks my urge to double battery capacity up a level.

According to my calcs, for me this means 0-600kWh will be R2.4544/kWh and > 600kWh will be R3,8758/kWh

Luckily these days I don't hit that second tier. It's ridiculous.
Click to expand...

Eskom Electricity Easter Special (buy 100 get 10 free!) – Homebug

homebug.com homebug.com

Yes that right if you normally use under 600 then you should buy 1422 this month, then nothing until you run out.
If you normally use over 600 then fill up as much as you feel safe doing, then make sure you keep buygin R1603 each month after 1st April 2024

1711566973487.png
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter