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VIEWS AND OPINION

All of this is proving to be hugely disruptive to the is a completely unnecessary process that is duplicated by Eskom and municipal
economy and to the lives and business operations network providers
of domestic, commercial, industrial, mining • Ensure that Nersa establishes a consistent and transparent national framework
and agricultural customers, in both Eskom and and methodology for the setting of fair and equitable wheeling and use-of-system
municipal areas of electricity supply. The associated tariffs for transportation of energy from distributed generators to off-takers by
loss of revenue, productivity and jobs, and an Eskom and municipal electricity distributors
inability to grow and adequately serve South • Require that municipalities have billing and metering systems in place to enable
Africa’s needs for economic recovery and growth wheeling of power within the municipal electricity network and across the Eskom/
following the Covid-19 pandemic, are staggering. municipal boundaries, in one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one and many-to-
many wheeling configurations, between related and unrelated parties
So, in addition to simply lifting the threshold above • Ensure that Nersa establishes a consistent and transparent national framework,
which a generation license is required, from 1 MW procedures, licensing rules and practices to enable resale of electricity by traders
to 100 MW, other actions are necessary to facilitate and aggregators
the uptake of embedded generation across the full • Address long-standing reactionary ideologies and attitudes within the DMRE,
spectrum of applications – with capacities below Nersa, Eskom and municipalities that serve the interests of the incumbent
100 kW; from 100 kW to 1 MW; and above 1 MW. monopolies, rather than the needs of customers and the national interest.
These actions should:
• Require Eskom and municipal electricity It is accepted that addressing the above issues cannot be done all at once, but rather
distributors to allow solar PV installations for step-by-step, and that this may take a little time. However, it is essential to understand
customers having prepayment or credit meters what needs to be done, and to focus initially on the “low-hanging fruit”, to unlock
without time-of-use functionality the significant potential that self-generation, embedded generation, distributed
• Ensure that Nersa establishes a consistent generation, wheeling and trading of electricity can deliver.
and transparent national framework and
methodology for the setting of fair and equitable Send your comments to rogerl@nowmedia.co.za
feed-in tariffs to compensate customers when
supplying electricity back into the grid
• Stop arbitrary restrictions by Eskom and
municipal electricity distributors forcing
TRANS ELECTRON
customers to be net consumers of electricity TRANS ELEC TRON
when installing embedded generators
• Remove unnecessary and arbitrary limits by
Eskom and municipal electricity distributors
on the size of an embedded generator that a PROUD MANUFACTURER and
customer may install
• Stop the irrational and restrictive practice SUPPLIER to the ELECTRICAL
by Eskom and certain municipalities of only INDUSTRY (SINCE 1984)
allowing LV embedded generation installations
where there is a dedicated supply transformer
feeding the installation
• Require that Eskom and municipal electricity
distributors streamline, capacitate and facilitate
the timely provision of cost estimate letters
(CELs), quotations and authorisation processes
for embedded generation installations, to
address the backlog and to ensure there are no
delays in processing of new applications
• Require that Nersa review its methodology,
procedures and practices for the registration and
licensing of embedded generation installations to
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