Eskom solar rules lie

Eskom continues to mislead the public regarding the legality of its onerous solar power system registration rules.

https://mybroadband.co.za/news/energy/662147-eskom-backs-down-on-r30000-fines-for-people-with-unregistered-solar-panels.html

2 hours ago, hoohloc said:

https://mybroadband.co.za/news/energy/662147-eskom-backs-down-on-r30000-fines-for-people-with-unregistered-solar-panels.html

Thanks. The sooner we take notice of the law the less we will stress.

Eskom and the metros cannot issue fines or make new laws to empower them to make new laws to suit them.

We can now see the tricks why energy consultants were calling for consumers to go off the grid going back about 5 yrs.

The following article is a bit older. It is refreshing to see someone trying to make consumers and Eskom work together. However, the incentives seem low:

R2,000 per year for plugging your home battery into South...

South African households with batteries connected to Deye inverters could get paid R1,000 to R2,000 per year for sharing their storage with the country’s first virtual power plant.

10 hours ago, frivan said:

The following article is a bit older. It is refreshing to see someone trying to make consumers and Eskom work together. However, the incentives seem low:

R2,000 per year for plugging your home battery into South...

South African households with batteries connected to Deye inverters could get paid R1,000 to R2,000 per year for sharing their storage with the country’s first virtual power plant.

I concur with you in respect of the incentives being low, on the one hand, but if you think about it globally, imaging having say 30,000 homes eventually being connected to VPPs, the amount becomes bigger and unless Eskom is truly going to be able to pay and make a profit, then the incentive to increase the amount does not make sense. A granular analysis would need to be done which benefits both parties, to be fair, though. Case in point, Eskom has not incurred capex for home units, but may incur cost for upgrading cabling and systems and labour and maintenance for the VPPs. But off course we know, the scale is always skewed away from the general consumer, on the balance of things.

22 hours ago, Scorp007 said:

Thanks. The sooner we take notice of the law the less we will stress.

Eskom and the metros cannot issue fines or make new laws to empower them to make new laws to suit them.

We can now see the tricks why energy consultants were calling for consumers to go off the grid going back about 5 yrs.

I love this part - "Eskom has no authority to issue fines. It is not a court, it is not a statutory authority, it doesn’t write the law, and there is no provision for Eskom to issue fines,”

4 hours ago, Demo said:

I love this part - "Eskom has no authority to issue fines. It is not a court, it is not a statutory authority, it doesn’t write the law, and there is no provision for Eskom to issue fines,”

1st we had the so called report that had to be issued by an registered engineer. Cannot put it as a requirement as a COC meets the condition of the law. Then they tried to line their own pockets with the R30th fine.

Let's sit back and watch the soapy unfolding going forward.

Some other news out is that they might this year only sell the same GWh of power as 30 years ago. Can such a business survive with less customers and still wanting to increase the free power for the poor. The rich customers they showed the door are all off the grid.

Some one once told me its like the worst restaurant you have ever been to. The service is slow, the food is cold and the the food of very poor quality. So you have a bad experience & you keep going back and pricing keeps going up.

For many that have the choice we never go back but for many they stop noticing and actually just put up with it.

In the end I think for many they just become irrelevant.

But people don't realise their biggest customers are farmers & that's our food security & based on that fact I guess they will have to keep being a going concern one way or another even if it's by hand outs by the state.

Edited Saturday at 06:245 days by Steve87

3 hours ago, Steve87 said:

that's our food security & based on that fact I guess they will have to keep being a going concern

I don't think the government cares about food security. They, including Eskom, will continue with their policies until the balance sheet can't go more negative... Then the poor will suffer most.