CBbrewery

Ok, people, my vote is for no registration or licensing required, unless you feed into the grid, if all you are doing is supplementing commercial power with your own, or even run off the grid, it should have no requirements.
As for being a producer of power... the problem is, that if you need to feed into the grid, the line voltage will rise and this, if everyone in your neighbourhood wants to do this, can end up with 300V on a 220V circuit, which some equipment may not be all that happy with, then a cloud comes over/the wind stops and all the power being produced disappears and the utility is up the creek and the 300V turns into 180V as all the consumers pull instead of push power... it is not as simple as some may try and make it sound, that we are being ripped off by Eskom and the grid tied municipalities goes without saying, but since they have run the infrastructure into bad shape & all, it probably is best to consider doing them the favour of lightening the load and disconnecting from the grid. At least until such time as they get their issues sorted and produce reliable power at a more reasonable rate and don't charge for everything else that is really included in the energy charge, separately, but is a great way of adding more fees and make it sound no too unreasonable.
Service and Administration Charge
Network Capacity Charge
Network Demand Charge
Anciliiary service charge
Energy charge
 
Wait, you forgot to add the drinks and hookers charge...

Thank you. I was assuming "10MW/h" but the quoted report doesn't say that. You have bought clarification to the argument.

As other posters are pointing out, tariffs are everything here. At present, in Jozi, I can sell back to the grid but the tariffs (including the fixed monthly charges and the cost of the required meter) don't make it worth my while, so I don't bother. 

Even if the tariffs do benefit me financially, City Power / Eskom are going to run into the problem seen in Australia, where they have so much power that didn't cost them much at the wrong time of day that it actually becomes a problem for them.

There's got to be a better solution than this. If they want to pay me for kw/h I sell back to the grid between 4pm and 7am, which would mean me buying a whole lot more gear. then that might be a solution. I agree that it would cost me to get into the game, but at least then they'd be addressing the problem and not having to smeek with people to turn off all non essential appliances between 17:00 and 21:00.

I can't see the game I'm playing as a winner for anybody but me, and even then it's not a dead cert.