My interest is peaked …
Two things pop to mind:
- Depending on when the financial year end is, it could complicate matters for me ito pushing back in summer to draw in winter.
- That sums will heavily depend on the costs for the bi-directional meter for me to be viably use the grid as a “battery” in each financial year?
MBB again. You can get an exemption like COCT and pay cash.
I think given the level of saturation of solar that is where all Muni’s need to go to save costs!
There is LOTS of room to pay cash for PV feedback, given you can pay for example 80%/kwh of what Eskom Costs. Muni can save 20% on each unit they/others use.
Hmmm… my own view is that the best approach to reselling is don’t. But I think COCT is an outlier here - because they have Steenbras and Steenbras belongs to the city and not to Eskom.
So in the middle of the day when the there is lots of PV but also demand is low, they can use that excess to pump the water in the Steenbras system uphill. Then they can let it back down again to turn the gennies during the evening peak.
Johannesburg has a resell tariff in theory, but say they can’t actually implement it right now. And I wonder if they want to. Because unless they have a way of storing the excess for later release, it doesn’t help them very much.
My cynical eye has yet to see anything from COJ to indicate that they really want us to resell. Having house generating their own power was useful to them during load shedding. It kept demand down. Now I think they see it just as a loss of revenue (which it is) with no up side.
But that’s what I think. I have no idea what COJ actually think about anything.
My view… even if you can use cheaper (local PV) for you own needs, instead of Eskom then you will win… say 20c on the Rand. There is no way we will get to the point where local PV is producing more than the “locals” (Muni/Industry/Residential) are using… Unlike some places in Europe where they have “to much PV”.
Encourage feedback from storage during Peak times… save on Peak usage from Eskom…
Must say, I can find very little about this on the web.
Feels like clickbait in the sense: Lets leak the info, see the reaction.
As there seems to be meetings still being held over it.
Unless my Google AI is blocking the articles I want to see?
Yeah, it is a thing, Google search is dropping a lot of info it thinks I don’t need.
OK… this makes sense for the City and for me. Even if they can only use that electricity fairly locally, it still reduces their own Eskom bill.
The problem is that the tariffs don’t make it worth my while. I’d have to buy the special meter, then switch tariffs (this is all in theory) with high fixed costs per month. I can only lose. Why would I do that? They can have my excess, such as it is, for nothing, but it has to be nothing for me too. I’m open to doing the City a favour, but not if it’s going to inflate my bill.
Also Johannesburg has lots of PV, but not lots of registered PV. A couple of weeks ago City Power released a statement that revealed that they have less than 400 domestic installations registered, and less than a 1000 in total. And they would need to contract out the monitoring for bi-directional meters and TOU tariffs. But with that number of registered sites that is not a lot of business for somebody to get interested in.
None of this is insoluble but it requires two things that COJ are short of: Goodwill and cash.
Three things CoJ is short of.
Add lack of Good Corporate Governance, Leadership.
Cities are “big businesses”, must be run as such to serve their “shareholders”.