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Submitted | first-name | support | concern | top-concern | message |
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2026-08-26 10:41:42 +02:00 | Sean | No I do not | Fixed Charges & Solar Penalties | ||
2026-08-26 10:09:19 +02:00 | Shaun | I support with amendments | All of the above | Fixed Charges & Solar Penalties | |
2026-08-26 10:05:42 +02:00 | Gail | No I do not | Fixed Charges & Solar Penalties | ||
2026-08-26 09:59:19 +02:00 | Charl | No I do not | Fixed Charges & Solar Penalties | The sun does not belong to anyone. Once they get this right then they gonna do the same with u catching rain water on your property. This is systematic strangling. Dont be blind.. see the big picture what the end game is | |
2026-08-26 09:48:02 +02:00 | Clinton | I support with amendments | Fixed Charges & Solar Penalties | ||
2026-08-26 09:05:36 +02:00 | Jano | No I do not | Fixed Charges & Solar Penalties | I support transparent, cost-reflective charges for the actual cost of maintaining a customer's grid connection. I object to fixed, capacity, legacy or service charges being used to recover historical electricity-sale revenue lost as consumers reduce consumption, improve efficiency or install privately funded embedded generation. Any fixed charge imposed on residential customers should therefore be independently demonstrated through a cost-of-supply study to represent efficient and prudent costs directly attributable to providing and maintaining that customer's grid connection and associated services. Lost electricity sales, municipal revenue shortfalls, historical inefficiencies, bad debt and unrelated municipal expenditure should not be recoverable through such a charge. | |
2026-08-26 09:00:52 +02:00 | Oupa | No I do not | Fixed Charges & Solar Penalties | ||
2026-08-26 09:00:22 +02:00 | Jean | No I do not | Fixed Charges & Solar Penalties | ||
2026-08-26 08:32:12 +02:00 | Natalie | I support with amendments | Fixed Charges & Solar Penalties | We have been sabotaged by Eskom, forced into getting solar to protect our livelihoods and now getting penalised for their disaster. Absolutely no way should any one have ot cover the costs of self made disaster. | |
2026-08-26 08:14:14 +02:00 | Yvonne | No I do not | All of the above | Fixed Charges & Solar Penalties | |
2026-08-26 08:01:54 +02:00 | Martin | No I do not | Fixed Charges & Solar Penalties | We were forced to invest in solar due to loadshedding and unreliable electricity supply from COJ. Electricity outages affected us working from home causing loss of revenue and stress. | |
2026-08-26 07:44:28 +02:00 | Liz | No I do not | Fixed Charges & Solar Penalties | As a pensioner electricity prices are out of hand as well as sewerage, water and property taxes. | |
2026-08-26 07:43:09 +02:00 | tj | No I do not | Fixed Charges & Solar Penalties | ||
2026-08-26 07:40:53 +02:00 | S.S. | No I do not | All of the above | Fixed Charges & Solar Penalties | |
2026-08-26 07:37:10 +02:00 | Vandra | No I do not | All of the above | Fixed Charges & Solar Penalties |
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- Ending Monopolies and Unlocking Private Investment:
Decades of Eskom’s single-buyer monopoly led to catastrophic load shedding, debt bailouts, and stifled innovation. Establishing the South African Wholesale Electricity Market (SAWEM) allows private generators, renewable energy developers, and traders to compete directly, deploying private capital to build generation capacity without burdening national taxpayers. - Transparent Price Discovery and Long-Term Cost Reductions:
Open day-ahead and intra-day wholesale trading forces generators to bid at competitive, marginal costs. Over time, this market mechanism removes operational inefficiencies, penalises unreliable power stations, and drives down the baseline wholesale cost of electricity for the entire economy. - Fair System Cost Allocation (“Anti-Free Riding”):
The physical grid requires billions of Rands in fixed maintenance costs regardless of how much energy is consumed. Supporters argue that grid-tied rooftop solar owners still rely on the national grid for nighttime power and system stability. Shifting toward mandatory fixed capacity charges ensures that network costs are fairly shared across all connected users, rather than being disproportionately subsidised by poorer households without solar systems. - Level Playing Field via Network Unbundling:
Legally unbundling the National Transmission Company of South Africa (NTCSA) and forcing distribution companies to separate physical “wires” from electricity trading ensures non-discriminatory grid access for everyone. Independent power producers will finally compete on equal terms with Eskom Generation. - Professionalising Municipal Electricity Accounts:
Forcing municipalities to separate their retail trading businesses from network maintenance creates transparent accounting, prevents councils from diverting grid maintenance funds to cover unrelated administrative shortfalls, and establishes cost-reflective pricing models.
- Ending Monopolies and Unlocking Private Investment:
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- A “Sun Tax” on Private Capital and Rooftop Solar:
Millions of households and businesses invested private savings into rooftop solar and batteries to keep their lights on when the state failed to do so. Replacing consumption-based billing with mandatory, high fixed monthly network charges penalises energy-conscious citizens, extends solar payback periods, and discourages private decarbonisation. - The “Captive Ratepayer Trap” and Municipal Insolvency:
Large industrial and commercial users exceeding demand thresholds (e.g., 1 MW) will be allowed to exit municipal supply to buy cheaper wholesale or private power. This strips municipalities of high-margin corporate revenue used to cross-subsidise indigent households and basic services, leaving captive residential ratepayers to shoulder skyrocketing local tariffs and degraded grid maintenance. - Wholesale Price Volatility and Market Power Manipulation:
Eskom Generation still controls the overwhelming majority of South Africa’s dispatchable baseload power. In unbundled spot markets worldwide, dominant suppliers have engaged in economic or physical withholding to artificially spike market clearing prices. Without hard statutory bid caps and aggressive oversight, wholesale price volatility will be passed directly down to retail consumers. - Severe Conflicts of Interest Within the NTCSA:
Consolidating transmission grid ownership (TNSP), system dispatch (SO), market clearing (MO), and legacy state off-take contracts (CPA) within a single entity under Eskom Holdings creates structural conflicts of interest. NTCSA could face internal commercial pressure to favour Eskom assets or delay third-party grid connections. - Premature Market Launch Amid Unresolved Municipal Debt:
Opening an advanced wholesale market with mandatory imbalance penalties in 2026/2027 while municipal distribution debt to Eskom remains unresolved is premature. Financially distressed municipalities that fail prudential credit requirements will be excluded from trading platforms, creating a divided nation of well-supplied metros and failing, power-starved rural councils.
- A “Sun Tax” on Private Capital and Rooftop Solar: