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    They must be cautious about it because black-outs were a very successful strong-arm tactic. If there was such a shortage of power available here, why was a contract signed and power exported across our borders just months before the blackouts started? At lower rates than we pay!
    Local monkeypality has installed ripple relays to curb consumption over peak times. Good. Now the smelly stuff has hit the fan! Their income has dropped so drastically because of the reduced consumption that we are now facing an increase in tarriffs!

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    grid tied

    Quote Originally Posted by AM Deale View Post
    Grid-tie IS allowed in certain municipalities, just not 100%
    grid tied is allowed, its the export of the excess power that is the issue. And now with eskoms current woes, i think it will take even longer to implement...

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    the few houses that are exporting power back, are only pilot projects.

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    Grid tie is getting more common nowdays. Cape Town allows it, City of Johannesburg and Tswane as well and Ekurhuleni allows it without payback as well.

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    I am talking about the City of Capetown only

    Please correct me if I am wrong , there is a Standard called NRS-097-2-1-2017-Edition-2.1-published-2020-07-20 , there is also a newer version dated 2023 that you need to comply with and then there is a request that need to be completed and sent to the Cape town electrical board ( Cape-Town-EEB705-Technical_Standard_for_the_Interconnection_of_Embe dded_Generation ) that they need to approve before you can install a Solar system , the approval takes about 120 days for each department

    Hope this help

    Kind Regards

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    In Orania Grid tie solar inverters are allowed, we call them KSIKO's and you get rewarded for feeding into the grid.
    You do however have to apply to feed back into the grid.
    Once applied the council sends an inspector out, and once all is approved you can feed into the grid.
    We like to do things differently and be independent...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Thys LOW Elektries View Post
    In Orania Grid tie solar inverters are allowed, we call them KSIKO's and you get rewarded for feeding into the grid.
    You do however have to apply to feed back into the grid.
    Once applied the council sends an inspector out, and once all is approved you can feed into the grid.
    We like to do things differently and be independent...
    Orania must be the only council in the country with an electrical inspector.

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    Not a qualified inspector though but he is the electrical department's manager and is a qualified electrician with a PV card.
    He works with the town's engineer and plans, design and expand our electrical network as the town grows.
    The KSIKO form is like 10 pages and the qualified people have to fill in the various parts to ensure all is safe and legit before you can export.
    We think and plan ahead. We have two solar farms to reduce our peak supply from Eskom, and soon we will have a battery bank to increase our electrical independence from Eskom.
    Just think that we achieve all this without grants or state loans, all financed locally

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