The average national electricity tariff in South Africa has risen by 190% since 2014

[Daniel Puchert]

Electricity prices almost tripled in South Africa

The average national tariff charged for electricity in South Africa has risen by 190% since 2014, with repeated above-inflation increases threatening to make it unaffordable.

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) revealed this in its annual report on power generation statistics in South Africa.

 

[HAL 9000]

 

[Mirai]

Cadre comrades have to eat.

 

[system32]

Eskom’s sales have steadily declined over the past decade, putting further pressure on the utility to raise prices to make up for the revenue shortfall and cover increased operating costs.

Sales declined because Eskom incompetence resulting in load shedding.
If you not producing electricity, you can't sell it.

This [sales declined] can result in a death spiral for the utility, where its raised prices force customers to find alternative energy sources.

When Eskom raises prices to such an extent that it's cheaper and more reliable to use home solar, it makes financial sense to get home solar.

Eskom's answer it to massively raise the fixed costs - which isolates them from home solar.
Next step is for home solar to go 100% off grid to stop the fixed costs.

My suggestion to Eskom is embrace home solar and buy the cheap electricity from home users and sell it at regular prices.

 

[JimM]

Every SOE is banjaxed (a lovely Irish expression) but the ANC are so blind that they can't see!

 

[wingnut771]

Who pays R2/kWh?

 

[system32]

Who pays R2/kWh?
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More like R4/kWh

I just purchased R700 from CoJ:

 

[wingnut771]

More like R4/kWh

I just purchased R700 from CoJ:

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Exactly. So that bs graph should show what we really pay and what the real percentage increase is.

 

[Bliksis]

That's nothing, it went up 2000% since 1994.

Eskom's 20-fold price hike in 31 years

Eskom's 20-fold price hike in 31 years From next month, South Africa's electricity tariffs will have increased by nearly 2,000% since the country became a democracy. While the cost of certain goods and services would have increased gradually over time due to inflation, Eskom's hikes over this...

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Perhaps the next article will be about now it went up since 1974