Thank you for starting this conversation, Jodi. I understand that the city needs to keep its revenue stream from the profits it makes by selling electricity to us. I'm sure we all agree that Cape Townians using electricity generated by the sun in the city is also better than importing it from coal burning power stations far away. Now why am I being charged by the city for feeding my excess solar generated electricity into the grid on a summer day? I haven't found the answer in your communique.
Hi Werner, thanks for reading! The only charges in the new model will be the once-off costs associated with setup and registration, including for the bidirectional meter, which is necessary to measure units used from and units provided to the grid. After that, you'll get paid the (Nersa) approved a rate of 78.98c/kWh as well as an additional 25c/kWh "incentive tariff" on top of this that the City is adding. They've budgeted R15m to purchase energy from now til June, which doesn't sound like a lot but I figure it'll take a lot of people some time to get the meter, and get registered etc. Next financial year will be more interesting...
Thank you for starting this conversation, Jodi. I understand that the city needs to keep its revenue stream from the profits it makes by selling electricity to us. I'm sure we all agree that Cape Townians using electricity generated by the sun in the city is also better than importing it from coal burning power stations far away. Now why am I being charged by the city for feeding my excess solar generated electricity into the grid on a summer day? I haven't found the answer in your communique.
Hi Werner, thanks for reading! The only charges in the new model will be the once-off costs associated with setup and registration, including for the bidirectional meter, which is necessary to measure units used from and units provided to the grid. After that, you'll get paid the (Nersa) approved a rate of 78.98c/kWh as well as an additional 25c/kWh "incentive tariff" on top of this that the City is adding. They've budgeted R15m to purchase energy from now til June, which doesn't sound like a lot but I figure it'll take a lot of people some time to get the meter, and get registered etc. Next financial year will be more interesting...