CoCT and Feed-in Tariff

You have to install a new meter that allows separate accounting for import/export. The meter cost is for your own bill, and is somewhere around 12k-15k.

Only the first year? Pfffft. That’s like insurance companies making the first year cheaper to get customers. I resent being “handled” like that.

Domestic is the “old” tariff that had no connection fee. Some people are still on that. Home user is the new one on which they put all new people, or anyone with a house that exceeds a certain value. On this tariff there is a connection fee (it’s around R180 a month these days), but the per-unit cost for the first 600kWh is somewhat cheaper than it is on Domestic to account for this. The cost for the first 600kWh on either tariff is pretty close to the same. Likely on purpose: CoCT wants to move people away from the flat-fee structure to a split-fee structure so the grid connection is billed separately.