Tshwane switches to prepaid electricity for all properties

[Pitbull]

f'ing hell thats a lot. My total bill is usually round 300.

I like the peak / off peak thing. I'm probably better prepared than the avg person to work around that.

Fk me, you stay in a complex?

My W&L come to about R 2 300 - R 2 600 a month ...

 

[HavocXphere]

Fk me, you stay in a complex?

Yes townhouse complex. The 300 is electricity bill only. Pta doesn't have a base charge for electricity...its all units used x rate.

Water & rates is separate...just over 1k I think (not sure - landlord pays that).

 

[supersunbird]

Tshwane paid R830m for a failed prepaid project

http://www.moneyweb.co.za/news/south-africa/tshwane-paid-r830m-for-a-failed-prepaid-project/

The City of Tshwane issued a statement on Tuesday saying it had “resolved today” to terminate its controversial contract with PEU Capital for the roll-out of a smart prepaid electricity metering system for the whole city with immediate effect.

It also disclosed that it had paid PEU R830 million since October 2013 for the project and that only 12 930 meters have been installed so far.

That means the average cost per meter rolled out amounts to more than R64 000, excluding any cancellation cost.

In terms of the contract PEU would have installed 800 000 meters and managed the project for eight years. The roll-out of the smart meters began in October 2013 with large power users and late last year for the smaller ones, including households in the Eastern parts of Pretoria. To date 6 572 meters have been installed at large users and 6 348 at small users.


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I wonder what happens with those that have it installed already.

 

[Hemi300c]

So the cadres walk away with R830mil scott free? Well done mr mayor you need to go play golf to clear your head.
Are the heads of departments, executives, mayors ever going to be held accountable for crap decisions that cost the tax payer a fortune with no benefits and the only beneficiaries are the contract signatories.

cANCer has to stop and be stopped with all this buddy buddy business dealings that only enrich the cadres and no performance or benefits are resultant for the tax payer.

 

[itareanlnotani]

Time of day metering was originally supposed to be rolled out years ago on a countrywide basis (national regulation 773!).
At least some municipalities have taken the >10 year delay in rollout to go with newer solutions.

Looks Tshwane isn't going with AMR, unlike Cape Town is, and is using something more modern and forward friendly - AMI. (AMR only supports one way communication to the meter, Tshwane is using bidirectional meters using AMI).

http://www.metering.com/wp-content/uploads/i/p/Phuti-Mabotja_Metering.pdf

That said, they're currently tied into a highly suspicious 10 year contract with PEU, where PEU makes a service fee of 19.5%-25% on all electricity sales. That means end user pricing is increased dramatically...

http://www.moneyweb.co.za/archive/tshwane-metering-contract-branded-blatantly-corrup/
http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/arti...tract-branded-blatantly-corrupt/#.VVLVomA4l5g

A win for afrisake - the exceedingly corrupt PEU contract was terminated.
http://www.moneyweb.co.za/news/south-africa/tshwane-paid-r830m-for-a-failed-prepaid-project/


Also, prepaid isn't very compatible with Solar, as most if not all the prepaid meters will go into fault mode if they detect power fed in.
This means that a current limiter is needed on single phase installs, or 3 phase grid tie solutions.
ATS switches will probably be needed for UPS style backup solutions in place too, to avoid meters going into fault mode when power goes off at Eskom side.

Prepaid will also be more expensive for most users not withstanding the large corruption issue with PEU.

So, good news and bad news.

I'd like to see how they're implementing STC (prepaid) with Time of Day billing, as that is another area that may have fingers in pies.


More details on the install (where the press release lies by omission) -

http://showme.co.za/pretoria/news/pretoria-news/the-city-of-tshwanes-smart-prepaid-m

 

[supersunbird]

So the cadres walk away with R830mil scott free? Well done mr mayor you need to go play golf to clear your head.
Are the heads of departments, executives, mayors ever going to be held accountable for crap decisions that cost the tax payer a fortune with no benefits and the only beneficiaries are the contract signatories.

cANCer has to stop and be stopped with all this buddy buddy business dealings that only enrich the cadres and no performance or benefits are resultant for the tax payer.

Jip, and now they trying to blame AfriSake, I bet you they are strongly opposing the court review, instead of getting it into a court as quickly as possible for the cities "all above board" processes to be vindicated.

The city blames AfriSake, a member of the Solidarity movement, which launched a court application to review and set aside the award of the contract to PEU for the slower-than-anticipated rollout of the meters. This, it said, resulted in “the anticipated benefits to the city not being fully realised, and the project becoming financially and economically unsustainable for the city”.

AfriSake based its application on its belief that proper procurement processes were not followed. An interdict to stop the further roll-out was not granted, but the review application is still pending.

The city said it has engaged with AfriSake and PEU in an attempt to find an amicable solution, but to date the talks have not been successful. This left the city “with little choice but to issue a formal notice to terminate.”

 

[Hemi300c]

PEU:-
The Peu team has been involved in the planning, execution and delivery of many strategic and complex business transactions and has the expertise that comes only from repeatedly executing successful transactions.

The team has sound knowledge of the governmental, banking and business sectors. The team has broad experience in a variety of disciplines, ranging from valuations, transaction support and capital raising to mergers and acquisitions, due diligences, JSE-related work and corporate restructuring .

Our wealth of knowledge, skill and experience affords us the ability to provide creative and inventive solutions across a variety of sectors and for every size of enterprise.

The team has been working together for a considerable time and comprises of

Peter Malungani – Executive Chairman
Busi Tshili – Deputy Chairman
Thuli Zuma
Duarte de Quintal
Well that says it all doesn't it.

 

[itareanlnotani]

Malangu is a serial tenderpreneur offender too -

http://mg.co.za/article/2011-02-04-the-connections-that-disconnected-joburg

Peter Malungani, a Masana director and founder and executive chair of the Peu Group, previously served as chair of the Gauteng tender board finance committee. In 2009 the Sunday Times reported that then-president Kgalema Motlanthe and his partner, Gugu Mtshali, had moved into a R7-million Houghton home owned by Malungani.


In summation;

Dodgy BEE dealings - check
Zuma - check
ANC cadre - check.
Corruption - check.
Incompetence - check.

All we need is someone to blame apartheid or racism, and we have ANC bingo.