Scrapping incline block tariffs, increasing charges for public lighting, and a new time-of-use tariff for solar users are among the proposals Eskom has included in its revised retail tariff plan recently submitted to Nersa.
to the National Energy Regulator of South Africa, proposing sweeping changes to the calculations used to determine its approved electricity prices.
Finally, the energy industry was evolving, and tariff structures needed to evolve to protect all customer interests and to ensure adequate recovery of Nersa-approved revenue, the utility argued. The most significant increases Eskom has proposed are for the tariffs charged for public lighting, which make up a minute fraction of its overall revenue.
Eskom said the IBT structure had proven unpopular and was difficult for customers to understand, resulting in “perverse” behaviour when purchasing at the high block rates. For the revised Homelight tariff, which is typically reserved for low-usage single-phase residential dwellings, churches, schools, halls, clinics, old-age homes or similar customers in urban areas, Eskom would continue to subsidise costs.
For example, a Homepower 1 user would pay R938 instead of R218 without using a single kilowatt-hour of electricity.
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