Rooftop solar registration Eskom

[Masu]

I just came across the below news article. Has anyone here on Eskom registered their rooftop solar, had a meter from Eskom installed and had to pay inspection cost for compliance? If so please share what it cost and procedure please.

Eskom’s warning to South Africans with rooftop solar: pay up, or be fined

Eskom warns homeowners with rooftop solar systems that they must register their installations to be legal or risk being fined, but both options could be costly.

businesstech.co.za

 

[spiff]

I just came across the below news article. Has anyone here on Eskom registered their rooftop solar, had a meter from Eskom installed and had to pay inspection cost for compliance? If so please share what it cost and procedure please.

Eskom’s warning to South Africans with rooftop solar: pay up, or be fined

Eskom warns homeowners with rooftop solar systems that they must register their installations to be legal or risk being fined, but both options could be costly.

businesstech.co.za

NO!

 

[Lupus]

Approach your muncipality.

 

[Benedict A55h0le not]

Do not listen to the little Eskom defender. Listen to spiff. They are not able to fine or tax because they don`t know who has solar. If you register they will tax you for using sunlight.

 

[Dimpie (COMPUTEK)]

 

[Lupus]

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Some people want to do the "right" thing.
We used to have a etoll defender

 

[spiff]

thank god I'm not part of the DA electricity supply / rip off / scam!

 

[Bliksis]

Do not listen to the little Eskom defender. Listen to spiff. They are not able to fine or tax because they don`t know who has solar. If you register they will tax you for using sunlight.

Same with a wellpoint.

 

[Lupus]

thank god I'm not part of the DA electricity supply / rip off / scam!

CoJ are trying as well

 

[Lupus]

Same with a wellpoint.

That's a little harder to see, solar panels are on roofs

 

[Bliksis]

That's a little harder to see, solar panels are on roofs

Yip. But are there actually inspectors going around and checking?

 

[Lupus]

Yip. But are there actually inspectors going around and checking?

Apparently CoCT is using aerial photography. But who knows, can't see CoJ doing that

 

[Bliksis]

Apparently CoCT is using aerial photography. But who knows, can't see CoJ doing that

I wonder if anyone has actually been approached and asked to provide proof of registration.

 

[Lupus]

I wonder if anyone has actually been approached and asked to provide proof of registration.

No one has said anything on here, unless all the CoCT people have registered.

 

[Kung Fu Porkchop]

I JUST got solar, so no

I also don't plan on doing so unless I absolutely have to. Our municipality is useless enough, and yet I have to pay them for utter incompetence. I'm not paying a cent more than I have to. F*** those clowns

 

[Lupus]

I JUST got solar, so no

I also don't plan on doing so unless I absolutely have to. Our municipality is useless enough, and yet I have to pay them for utter incompetence. I'm not paying a cent more than I have to. F*** those clowns

Exactly my solar is protecting me from them I mean they literally gave me 3 weeks of no power.

 

[TedLasso]

I've tried to look at the Eskom website for the forms that person said was available. Nothing coming up in searches. Anyone got the link?

 

[rh1]

So the worst Eskom can do, is to disconnect me from their grid. Which is fair. Since I am not going to give in to their inane demands.

I rather reorganise my finances and go 90% plus offgrid with genny as backup.

In fact we can already make be at 90%, if my wife curtails certain habits of her, where she uses large appliances when the sun does not shine.

 

[The_MAC]

Apparently CoCT is using aerial photography. But who knows, can't see CoJ doing that

Aerial imagery has been used for a very long time by the Surveyor General and Deeds Office, for various purposes, one of them being rates and taxes. So solar panel identification can be easily done, if not already in place. They outsource it, and from what I can remember, it's satellite, aircraft and even drone in some instances.

Pretty much the same data that Google Maps uses, below 2 random houses in my area:

 

[Lupus]

So the worst Eskom can do, is to disconnect me from their grid. Which is fair. Since I am not going to give in to their inane demands.

I rather reorganise my finances and go 90% plus offgrid with genny as backup.

In fact we can already make be at 90%, if my wife curtails certain habits of her, where she uses large appliances when the sun does not shine.

Only if you're connected to their grid.
Last mile is your municipality.