Lameez Omarjee
March set a new monthly record for the City with close to 700 applications for solar PV installations.Plans are afoot for the City of Cape Town to slash the cost of a specialised meter by more than half, so that customers can use it to feed power back to the municipal grid. However, the municipality is currently testing a cheaper model, which could cost less than R6 000, and there are plans to release it later this year.
The feed-in tariff, which is approved by the National Regulator of South Africa, is at 78.89c for residents and will beThis is over and above the City's 25c/kWh incentive for customers selling power back to it. In the month of March, the City received close to 700 new applications for solar PV installations, a new monthly record.
"…should just 25 000 of Cape Town's more than 600 000 electricity customers sign-up as Power Heroes, we can protect against an additional one full stage of load shedding during peak hours," said Hill-Lewis.