💡 Now is the time for municipalities to start considering the future and investing in it by ditching Eskom, writes Richard Anthony Chemaly. 🔌 LoadShedding Electricity Eskom Read the opinion piece below 🔽
So, not only are we getting a more efficient and direct distribution as opposed to having Eskom dispatch people all over from Megawatt Park, we also get more money to spend on civic services, assuming of course, the municipalities spend that money on civic services.
Obviously buying the electricity costs money too, so it’s not all profit but there’s still a good few million in that.Not only do you lose a couple of jobs but you also lose a revenue stream. That must be rather scary to any municipal manager worth their salt when they start realising that an easy cash cow will dry up when their citizensWhat can they do to respond? Raise rates? Charge the people still on the grid more? Cut services? Increase debt? None of those things seem particularly nice.
And as time goes on, if my electricity budget of R3 000 a month can be cut in half simply by moving to a better run city, I’ll move and save a lovely 18k a year.
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