Cape Town businesses capable of feeding electricity into the local grid will be paid cash for their excess power before the end of June and homeowners within the year.
Hill-Lewis said the city had been steadily been laying the groundwork to enable payment for excess small scale power, including:
starting a wheeling trial for commercial and industrial users to iron out technical and billing issues ahead of mass rollout; andSmall-scale embedded generation and wheeling customers wanting to feed energy into the grid must have their system approved and have an advanced metering infrastructure meter installed by the city“This is a bidirectional meter that allows accurate reporting of the amounts of energy consumed and generated.
“The exemption is necessary because South Africa’s public finance legislation did not foresee energy procurement from independent power producers, only from Eskom. “The requirement of a ‘competitive bidder/single winner for goods and services’ would make the wheeling programme a non-starter.
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