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DarkSt0rm said:
We haven't had water for 3ish weeks at this point.


I'm also out later this year. Either spend a bar going off grid or head off to a brighter tomorrow, guess which option won...
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Well I spent around 100k for a solar setup back in 2018 which serves me and my family well. We only pull R200 worth of power from eskom pm aside from the ridiculous Eskom/CoJ charges.

Not sure where you get a bar to go fully off grid but if someone is able to break it down for me, that would be great.

As for leaving, I just want to live somewhere with stable power supply and where I'm not taxed through my nostrils for services that can't be rendered.
 
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Slowestclock said:
Well I spent around 100k for a solar setup back in 2018 which serves me and my family well. We only pull R200 worth of power from eskom pm aside from the ridiculous Eskom/CoJ charges.

Not sure where you get a bar to go fully off grid but if someone is able to break it down for me, that would be great.
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Yeah, you don't need to spend anywhere near that sort of money to go off-grid.

Can be done for R300k easily.
 
Priapus said:
Yeah, you don't need to spend anywhere near that sort of money to go off-grid.

Can be done for R300k easily.
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600k for a solar system + 200k to drill borehole + 100k for solar borehole pump and redoing a lot of the outside water piping put in like 140 years ago.

Talking about fully off grid, so it's budgeted for winter usage + excess. Spend about 6k a month on Eskom power during summer... Run a few server racks in the wine cellar for work reasons :(
 
DarkSt0rm said:
600k for a solar system + 200k to drill borehole + 100k for solar borehole pump and redoing a lot of the outside water piping put in like 140 years ago.

Talking about fully off grid, so it's budgeted for winter usage + excess. Spend about 6k a month on Eskom power during summer... Run a few server racks in the wine cellar for work reasons :(
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Yeah, you could probably just move abroad but also "wine cellar", sounds like 1st world problems
 
Slowestclock said:
Well I spent around 100k for a solar setup back in 2018 which serves me and my family well. We only pull R200 worth of power from eskom pm aside from the ridiculous Eskom/CoJ charges.

Not sure where you get a bar to go fully off grid but if someone is able to break it down for me, that would be great.

As for leaving, I just want to live somewhere with stable power supply and where I'm not taxed through my nostrils for services that can't be rendered.
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I think R1 mill is a bit of an exaggeration but going fully off grid for everything is always a lot more than "mostly" off grid.
Also, I think they mean water and electricity which I think might just be close to R1 mil.
 
Nerfherder said:
I think R1 mill is a bit of an exaggeration but going fully off grid for everything is always a lot more than "mostly" off grid.
Also, I think they mean water and electricity which I think might just be close to R1 mil.
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It is now impossible to go off-grid on land that is zoned as residential. And the "off-grid" housing plots all stand to be re-classified as residential. Technically it is not possible to go off-grid, if you own a house in SA you will pay what they tell you to pay regardless.
 
Vorastra said:
So how fcked are we looking for the next week or so.
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I think it is going to get much worse.

The corrupt employees/suppliers have started smelling big lunches at the troughs since the mention of a State of Emergency. Waiting for the bypassing of the processes. And I am sure they are creating a bigger crises in order to gather support for it.
 
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