How much more households will pay after all Eskom's proposed price hikes over 3 years

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Eskom R4,500 electricity price pain

Eskom's proposed price hikes for the next three years will mean that households that consume between 600kWh and 1,500kWh of electricity monthly will pay between R1,116 and R4,492 more per month in 2027 than they do now.

In a recent article, the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) highlighted that the proposed electricity price hikes equate to a roughly 66% increase over the next three years.
 
Such a click bait type write up. I don't even bother anymore
 
We are going to see world record grid defection if this happens. A system that can comfortably deliver 1500Kwh per month is just R245k installed. Thats less than a 24 month payback period. Only an idiot would be on the grid in that situation. Move the payback period to 36 months and you can have a fantastic generator backup added to that, or just a crazy overbuild and batteries.
 
Jan said:
Eskom R4,500 electricity price pain

Eskom's proposed price hikes for the next three years will mean that households that consume between 600kWh and 1,500kWh of electricity monthly will pay between R1,116 and R4,492 more per month in 2027 than they do now.

In a recent article, the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) highlighted that the proposed electricity price hikes equate to a roughly 66% increase over the next three years.
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Superb headline, guys. As usual.
 
Eskom is chasing away the very people who is paying them the most. You can only squeese a cow's teat so hard. Any harder and you'll rip it off. Brilliant move Eskom. You have only ensured your own destruction that much sooner.
Instead of using excess solar you are forcing everyone off grid.
Sorry to say that municipalities will end up worse. Between those that go off grid and those that simply steal electricity because it is otherwise unaffordable there is very little in the middle who will still pay.
Bravo you idiots
 
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What did they want to make the connection fee again? :ROFL::ROFL::ROFL: Of course South African households will go solar. And then they can dream up how they will pay off all that debt all they want, because it won't be with electricity sales.

Not ESKOM. SuicideRUs

Connections aren't even in the main Eskom wheelhouse anymore. That's now with NTCSA. So they better think again.
 
Dumping Eskom and the government is the only way forward, Eskom has become a liability to the country, it has nothing to offer.
 
Shayd said:
We are going to see world record grid defection if this happens. A system that can comfortably deliver 1500Kwh per month is just R245k installed. Thats less than a 24 month payback period. Only an idiot would be on the grid in that situation. Move the payback period to 36 months and you can have a fantastic generator backup added to that, or just a crazy overbuild and batteries.
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Just 245k :ROFL:
Yeah I am pretty sure everybody can afford that.
 
BBSA said:
Just go Rent to own.....

It's likely that your monthly rent will offset the amount you save on electricity costs.
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I own a 6 acre plot and have no bond. I have a solar setup so I am good. But when I see some people I know that just get by every month and then there are people worse off than them it will be an uphill battle for them. Sure there are payment plans that make it easier to pay off but they are way steeper than month electricity bills.
 
Shayd said:
We are going to see world record grid defection if this happens. A system that can comfortably deliver 1500Kwh per month is just R245k installed. Thats less than a 24 month payback period. Only an idiot would be on the grid in that situation. Move the payback period to 36 months and you can have a fantastic generator backup added to that, or just a crazy overbuild and batteries.
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Problem is we have municipalities that have grown fat with electricity sales and our esteemed Government will just attach absurd 'network charges' and create some BS regulation that justifies the ridiculous charges.

Our BRILLIANT Minister of Electricity boasts about how much they have reduced load shedding but they don't delve into any of the associated costs involved. Burning Diesel to keep the power on at an absurd cost isn't for free - they have to recoup those costs somehow and guess what? We are their Golden Geese.
 
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Mekon said:
I own a 6 acre plot and have no bond. I have a solar setup so I am good. But when I see some people I know that just get by every month and then there are people worse off than them it will be an uphill battle for them. Sure there are payment plans that make it easier to pay off but they are way steeper than month electricity bills.
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You can already save money if you do it smartly. If you offset the higher tariff bracket usage to solar and stay in the lower tariff brackets for eskom use you will save some money and in the past would have been load shedding free as a bonus.
 
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