The City of Joburg plans to incentivise customers with solar PV to sell it excess power.An energy expert says that Joburg's incentive is about a third less than that offered in other developing countries.The City of Joburg plans to implement a feed-in tariff, an incentive for customers with solar PV to sell it excess power, but it's lower than that offered by the City of Cape Town.
Residents with solar PV have an approved tariff of 85.50c/kWh. For businesses with generation of less than 1MW, they have an approved tariff of 70.85c/kWh. The City of Cape Town is earning more money by selling electricity than Johannesburg. Cruise believes that revenue may be a contributing factor in Johannesburg offering a lower feed-in tariff.
"What is significant about the Vietnam example is that the solar feed-in tariff was above the market price of electricity at the time.An overview of the challenges and opportunities of the climate crisis, as it changes the world we know.But most municipalities rely a lot on electricity sales to raise revenue, a matter that was raised by former Joburg mayor Mpho Phalatse at a meeting with the Presidential Climate Commission last year.