Very good suggestion regarding power usage

Moederloos said:
unconstitutional :-[

otherwise, I would agree.
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What part? I know the bill of rights says everyone has the right to "Health care, food, water and social security" but I didnt see electricity mentioned.
 
bwana said:
What part? I know the bill of rights says everyone has the right to "Health care, food, water and social security" but I didnt see electricity mentioned.
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I am certainly no lawyer - but a quick google gave me a bunch of amendments and this paragraph:

Local governments deal with things that affect the local area that they control. Part B of Schedules 4 and 5 of the Constitution says what things local government is responsible for. This includes collecting rubbish, parking, electricity and parks. Laws written by local governments are called by-laws.
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http://www.paralegaladvice.org.za/docs/chap01/04.html
 
LoneRanger said:
It would actually be very easy, just put a 20 or 50 amp (or whatever is decided) breaker into the electrical box. Hence that is the max that would be allowed for the house hold.....
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Dont want to poke holes in the idea, but different households have different needs.

A household of 2 people is very different from a household of a family of 7! Who decides what "size" of breaker is fitted?
 
catweasel said:
Dont want to poke holes in the idea, but different households have different needs.

A household of 2 people is very different from a household of a family of 7! Who decides what "size" of breaker is fitted?
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Different breaker size - different scale of charge? Homeowner decides what they want?
 
catweasel said:
Yup, that can work, makes good sense:) Nice one!
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Wait i might have jumped the gun:(

What you saying would penalise people with large households! That wont work, thats not fair.

Maybe a standard must be devised to allocate say 20amps per person in the household for example, instead of just scaling the charges for a bigger breaker?
 
catweasel said:
Dont want to poke holes in the idea, but different households have different needs.

A household of 2 people is very different from a household of a family of 7! Who decides what "size" of breaker is fitted?
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Absolutely !

I cant see how this is going to work. One cannot compare the energy needs of a ACME estates with that of Joe Mhlongo who lives in a shack in Diepsloot. How are they going to allocate the kilowatt-hours ?

Unless they take an average of your monthly usage and say right you must save by using only 80 % of your average.

This only makes matters worse as some municipalities do not always take accurate meter reading for power usage but hey lets throw the idea in.

I see another pitfall here, how do you make the restrictions equatable to both prepaid and post paid power users ? One cannot ask for an 20 % saving for postpaid consumers and not impose the same restrictions on prepaid users , this is a nightmare !
 
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catweasel said:
Wait i might have jumped the gun:(

What you saying would penalise people with large households! That wont work, thats not fair.

Maybe a standard must be devised to allocate say 20amps per person in the household for example, instead of just scaling the charges for a bigger breaker?
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Yeah - also a good idea.
 
A friend of mine pulled too much power causing his distribution box to trip. So he got some dude to come in and put a higher amps breaker in his board. The dude obviously had to do it covertly, Eskom wouldn't give permission - he was using special insulating gloves, screw drivers and what not while standing on several rubber mats from my friend's car :D
 
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