“To incentivise greater uptake of rooftop solar, Eskom will develop rules and a pricing structure – known as a feed-in tariff – for all commercial and residential installations on its network.”
President @CyrilRamaphosa #EnergyActionPlan 🇿🇦 pic.twitter.com/WdU4smVEFj
— Presidency | South Africa 🇿🇦 (@PresidencyZA) July 25, 2022
With this tweet, South African president Cyril Rampahosa announced yesterday that the government is defining a new incentive scheme to help the country's households and businesses to resort to solar. “We call on all South Africans to use electricity sparingly as we work towards ending load shedding and getting more energy on the grid,” he stated.
Load shedding refers to a well-known concept among South Africans and occurs when troubled national utility Eskom reduces power supply because demand on the network is too much for it to handle. The measure is a last resort in emergencies after all attempts to balance supply and demand have failed and a solution is needed to prevent complete breakdown of the system.
The new scheme may also include unspecified tax incentives, Ramaphosa said without providing further details.
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“We have spoken in the past about restructuring Eskom, which will result in three entities, namely an electricity generation entity, an electricity transmission entity and an electricity distribution entity.”
President @CyrilRamaphosa #EnergyActionPlan pic.twitter.com/BjBKmvkPLE
— Presidency | South Africa 🇿🇦 (@PresidencyZA) July 25, 2022
In a second tweet, Ramaphosa said the government also wants to move forward with a plan to rescue state-owned power company Eskom by separating it into three units. “While existing legislation may be sufficient in ordinary times, the current crisis requires that we act decisively and more speedily,” he said.
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This is so long overdue. I don’t know why they didn’t think of this looongg ago. I had a PV system installed on my roof and I got fined for not having it registered. The government really needs to help those of us who are trying to help the system. They need to work faster to give us these incentives so that there will be less strain on the system.
johnwu@lesso.com
It’s a good hope and it’s a giant step for the SA economic development .
Make the sunshine be meaningfull.
From BOS materials ,BESS and panel, all Lesso involving, with factories mainly in Asia and America, let’s make SA growing!