I would love to know what you pay for prepaid electricity/

[Houses4Rent]

The electricity providers sell electricity in bulk to those pre-paid meter people at lwer prices than the end consumer pays which is not more other people pay. They then live from the variance between those two prices. That was an explanation I heard many years ago.

[adrianh]

I think that this industry needs to be investigated and I also think that all the tenants have to be informed up front as to what they will be paying for electricity.

I want to know whether the industry is regulated and what those regulations are. Those prepaid meters are way to much like rigged one arm bandits for my liking.

[Houses4Rent]

As I said, I think the tenants do not pay more per unit than post paid clients do as its not alloed to charge more. But I am not 100% sure. Let us know of the outcome of your investigation please.

[Denver Cumings]

I'm in Maitland area
I Pay R50 for 16.4 kwh that would last just over half of the day,
someone told me I'm on high consumption
I don't understand this, we used to get 32 kwh for R50 and even free units every month
We even stopped using the stove, oven, microwave, toaster and have the geiser on for only 2 hours a day
using gas for two weeks now, but sill it doesn't come down
This is cracy. I spent about R700 a week on my prepaid

[Justloadit]

The other culprit here is your fridge and/or freezer. They consume between 7Kw and 10Kw a day, depending on the weather.

We are buying the wrong fridges. We must get fridges designed for ambients of 40 degrees, or alternatively pack polystyrene around the sides, to reduce the losses to the surrounding areas.
Also ensure that the grill on the back of the fridge is clean, and that there is sufficient distance between the coil and the wall to allow for the convection cooling of the coil. This helps with the efficiency of the heat transfer to the surrounding area.

[Justloadit]

Just bought R250 of prepaid this morning, and got 128.1KWh, which translates to R1.952 per KW, and the slip says Business 0.0-500.0KWh is R169.2c/KWh. I wonder who's calculator they are using.

On my home which is postpaid, I get billed over and above the consumption of R1.0818 step one and R1.2415 step 2,
Demand side management Fee R 5.86
Service charge R 112.02
Network charge R 452.03

I suspect that there hidden charges in the prepaid that they are not informing the public.

[Andre_h]

Johannesburg City power: - R2-44 per KwH