Reactive Energy Charge: The Winter-Only Line on Your Bill
There's a reactive energy charge on your winter bill that isn't on your summer one. It isn't demand. It isn't the tariff increase. Here's what it…
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Category: Eskom
Why Is My Business Electricity Bill So High?
Your July bill jumped and nothing in your business changed. The reason is a charge on page two that most owners have never noticed — and…
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Ruraflex Tariff: The Widest Peak Gap Eskom Publishes
Rural sites sit on the biggest peak-to-off-peak gap in the country. Here is what one shifted unit is really worth this winter, and the two Ruraflex…
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Cold Storage Peak Shaving: Your Cold Room Is a Battery
Three suppliers quoted you a megawatt hour of battery. None of them walked into the freezer. There is a way to cut your demand charge before…
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Eskom Winter Tariffs: Three Charges, Three Levers
Three charges sit on your winter bill. One responds to load shifting, one to peak clipping, and one to nothing you can install. Adding them together…
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Peak Shaving Batteries: Why Most Savings Quotes Are Wrong
A battery earns money two different ways, and which one works depends on your tariff. Most quotes count a charge that never moves — about R47,000…
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Commercial Battery ROI: The 3.4x Winter Swing
The same battery earns 3.4x more in July than in January. Size it on your annual-average bill and you under-build it in the three months that…
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Eskom Tariff Structure: Why You Pay 6× for the Same Unit
Same wires, same meter, same unit of power — and six times the price. Your tariff isn't one price. It's a set of levers, and here's…
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Solar Payback Calculation: The Rate Most Quotes Get Wrong
Your solar quote values every kWh at your peak rate. Your panels never generate in peak. Here is the corrected sum, on a real Megaflex tariff,…
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Solar Grid Capacity in South Africa: What Durban Pays
Your eThekwini bill rose 9% on 1 July — not 8.76% in April. If your installer quoted the Eskom number, they modelled someone else's business. Here's…
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NERSA Trading Rules: Does Your Rooftop Solar Count?
You've heard the trading rules changed and the solar project is on hold. Three questions tell you whether they touch your site at all — and…
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Stop Paying Eskom’s Peak Premium: A Business Owner’s Guide to Battery Storage, Peak Shaving & Intelligent Load Management
South African businesses are paying up to 6x more for electricity during peak hours. This guide explains how battery energy storage, peak shifting, hybrid inverters, containerised…
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Eskom Loadshedding and Tariff forecast
Excerpt: After over 300 days without loadshedding, Eskom’s grid failings returned with Stage 3 cuts sweeping SA this weekend. But the “rabbit out of a hat”…
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