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Eskom wants households to pay hundreds per month before using power
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Eskom has proposed that households pay a far greater portion of their bills in the form of fixed charges related to the supply of electricity (currently these are bundled into the price per unit of power). Moneyweb Loadshedding

Eskom has proposed that households pay a far greater portion of their bills in the form of fixed charges related to the supply of electricity . This would see many of the suburban residential customers serviced directly by the utility, paying hundreds of rands per month before using a single kilowatt-hour of electricity.

And for those who seek to ‘escape’ high charges … Beyond these changes, Eskom will also seek to – over time – migrate all customers to time-of-use tariffs. Read: SA had 3.6m indigent households in 2020 It notes that currently many of its customers are not billed in this way.

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