Eskom’s Landrate tariffs charge customer thousands of rands in fixed costs before they’ve used a single unit of electricity.
While there are growing concerns about Eskom ’s plans to increase fixed charges across many of its tariff plans by hundreds of rand, many might not be aware that rural electricity users have been paying fixed fees well over R1,000 for several years.
One of the farmers maintained that Eskom had deviated from its original agreement to install electricity infrastructure in their area over 30 years ago. The farmer who spoke to MyBroadband is currently on the Landrate 1 tariff for a three-phase connection with a maximum draw of 25kVA. While some of these had switched to a prepaid tariff structure, which avoids the significant fixed fees, they pay substantially more than the average per-kWh rate that conventional Landrate users pay.
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