So now I'm hearing that even if you don't have solar panels installed, or even if you never planned to install solar but only use your system for load shedding, your off-grid inverter still needed to be registered by 1 October. Is this correct? I thought SSEG registration/City-approved inverter list only applies to solar installations? What if you missed the memo and didn't register your off-grid inverter (used only for loadshedding) that has previously never required registering?

Edited September 30, 20232 yr by Boomer

 

So now I'm hearing that even if you don't have solar panels installed, or even if you never planned to install solar but only use your system for load shedding, your off-grid inverter still needed to be registered by 1 October. Is this correct? I thought SSEG registration/City-approved inverter list only applies to solar installations? What if you missed the memo and didn't register your off-grid inverter (used only for loadshedding) that has previously never required registering?

Then previously you wouldn't get fined and now you will. They changed the rules, government always does. There was a time when national legislation said that SSEGs don't have to be registered if it was for own consumption. Long term, when Eskom's death spiral leads to R10/kWh tariffs, they will probably tax the sun that shines on you: daylight robbery.

 

So now I'm hearing that even if you don't have solar panels installed, or even if you never planned to install solar but only use your system for load shedding, your off-grid inverter still needed to be registered by 1 October. Is this correct? I thought SSEG registration/City-approved inverter list only applies to solar installations? What if you missed the memo and didn't register your off-grid inverter (used only for loadshedding) that has previously never required registering?

Are you supplied by the City or by Eskom? If the former then contact them and say you want to install a system like (describing what you have) and see what they say. 

 

Are you supplied by the City or by Eskom? If the former then contact them and say you want to install a system like (describing what you have) and see what they say. 

I'm supplied by the City. I sent in an application to notify them of my intention to install solar (in the future) and asked for permission to use my off-grid inverter which was purchased when off-grid PV/battery installations were allowed. My point is, after people have already spent a lot of money installing perfectly legal systems (with COCs), you can't just change the rules. My knee-jerk reactions is to tell them to come and cut my supply - I will literally go off the grid and they can kiss all their revenue goodbye!  

Edited October 1, 20232 yr by Boomer

 

I'm supplied by the City. I sent in an application to notify them of my intention to install solar (in the future) and asked for permission to use my off-grid inverter which was purchased when off-grid PV/battery installations were allowed. My point is, after people have already spent a lot of money installing perfectly legal systems (with COCs), you can't just change the rules. My knee-jerk reactions is to tell them to come and cut my supply - I will literally go off the grid and they can kiss all their revenue goodbye!  

OK... my point is that you can contact the City and understand their position (and even argue it with your councillor) rather than rely on what you hear. 
 

 

I'm supplied by the City. I sent in an application to notify them of my intention to install solar (in the future) and asked for permission to use my off-grid inverter which was purchased when off-grid PV/battery installations were allowed. My point is, after people have already spent a lot of money installing perfectly legal systems (with COCs), you can't just change the rules. My knee-jerk reactions is to tell them to come and cut my supply - I will literally go off the grid and they can kiss all their revenue goodbye!  

Off-grid systems do not need permission.

That is the simple answer.

The definition of off-grid is where all the confusion comes in. This confusion is mostly from the coct side. Deliberate maybe.