A slow news day?

Off-Topic (In the weeds/General Discussion)
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Apropos nothing obvious, Daily Maverick decide to lead with a piece saying that Eskom are coming for your solar and are going to charge you 30K for registration.

Well they’re getting lots of clicks, which may be the idea.

Piece is written by a political commentator with quite a good reputation. When it comes to politics. When it comes to energy, not so much.

I don’t know if this FUD to get clicks, lack of something to report about (very hard to believe), or a columnist who has to file a piece every week.

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One thing that occured to me, a penny that dropped if you like, is the scale of Eskom’s service area. City Power, for example, is a pretty small, local operation. They don’t have to deal with Putsonderwater or Tweebuffelsmeteenskootdoodgeskietfontein, or farms somewhere near those remote outposts. If a farmer in the middle of nowhere decides to register, somebody has to go out to the middle of nowhere and locate that specific property.

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yeah… unfortunate.

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