@mzezman thanks, would have been great if you were in CT, appreciate the thought anyway.

@Hansa thank you very much for the links, that will be a big help, I'll call them in the morning! 

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The City Of Cape Town registration is outstanding as a paid for item on the invoice/sales contract. While that process may take time on the City's side, my concern is that the application is not lodged yet and this introduces risk to myself in terms of fines from the city.

You have a grid-tied inverter that is on the City Of Cape Town approved grid-tied inverter list which means you automatically have to apply for grid-tied application which will require engineer sign-off as well

You can do your own registration, it is free but you will need engineer sign-off, technical drawings and COC, everything is on the City of Cape Town's website

20 minutes ago, Dieter said:

You have a grid-tied inverter that is on the City Of Cape Town approved grid-tied inverter list which means you automatically have to apply for grid-tied application which will require engineer sign-off as well

You can do your own registration, it is free but you will need engineer sign-off, technical drawings and COC, everything is on the City of Cape Town's website

Thanks @Dieter, do you have an idea how cumbersome the process is or know of anyone who does this for a reasonable price?

9 hours ago, Glenn said:

Thanks @Dieter, do you have an idea how cumbersome the process is or know of anyone who does this for a reasonable price?

Hi Glen , the registration process takes long (months) and "easy" if you have everything, I do not know anyone but if I was in your shoes, I could check the sapvia website for an approved installer and ask them to come to do an assessment of installation and assist with registration

@Glenn have you managed to get this sorted? I’m also looking for someone to assist with a CoC and CoCT SSEG registration in Bellville/Cape Town.

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1 hour ago, d3nominat0r said:

@Glenn have you managed to get this sorted? I’m also looking for someone to assist with a CoC and CoCT SSEG registration in Bellville/Cape Town.

Hi @d3nominat0r, I did. A company called Somewatt Solar (owner is named Dean) did a some of extra work for for me, adding a battery and fixing the mess Renegade Energy (original installer) made with the wiring and setup. After that work they did a CoC and SSEG registration. I'm not sure they do that in general for installs they didn't start themselves, but you can ask.

On 2023/02/03 at 10:36 PM, Glenn said:

Hi @d3nominat0r, I did. A company called Somewatt Solar (owner is named Dean) did a some of extra work for for me, adding a battery and fixing the mess Renegade Energy (original installer) made with the wiring and setup. After that work they did a CoC and SSEG registration. I'm not sure they do that in general for installs they didn't start themselves, but you can ask.

I went through very similar situation and as described above.   I also eventually contracted another installer to do the registration with CtC at a cost, which I recovered from the original electrician who defaulted on his agreement.   I wrote to the The Electrical Conformance Board of South Africa (ECB)  https://ecb.org.za/ and explained how I got done in and by who.    What happened between the parties I do not know, but 2 weeks later I received a very sad and apologetic phone call  and the culprit reluctantly agreed to pay the costs of the other installer to finalise the registration, which he did.😁

53 minutes ago, Rodbuilder said:

I went through very similar situation and as described above.   I also eventually contracted another installer to do the registration with CtC at a cost, which I recovered from the original electrician who defaulted on his agreement.   I wrote to the The Electrical Conformance Board of South Africa (ECB)  https://ecb.org.za/ and explained how I got done in and by who.    What happened between the parties I do not know, but 2 weeks later I received a very sad and apologetic phone call  and the culprit reluctantly agreed to pay the costs of the other installer to finalise the registration, which he did.😁

Thanks @Rodbuilder, that is certainly worth a try. Thanks for the advice!

Good to hear that you guys didnt give up and let these bandits get away with it. 

>The unscrupulous installer still has access to my system via Solarman Business and I do not (I only have Solarman Smart so can't change any settings if needs be). How do I get control of it and remove their control?

IIRC, the SolarMan WiFi dongle has a reset button for a fresh install.