Who files your SSEG form and who actually swaps the meter?
Your SSEG application belongs to you, the technical pack to your installer, and the meter to the municipality. Here is the order that keeps you connected.
Regulatory Compliance and Metering
South African municipal, national and electrical compliance requirements for grid-tied and hybrid solar systems, including metering and certification.
Self-consumed solar kWh pays more than export credits
A self-consumed solar kWh avoids the full retail tariff; an exported one earns a municipal feed-in credit. How to compare both on one rand-per-kWh basis.
Why your bill won't drop to zero with embedded generation
Fixed network charges, meter fees and a low feed-in credit keep a floor under your municipal bill. Here is how to read the account and find that floor before you sign.
What the SSEG rules say about how big your inverter may be
How municipal SSEG rules cap inverter size against your property's approved supply capacity, why kVA is the figure that counts, and what to check first.
The Fixed Charges That Quietly Eat Your Feed-In Credit
Feed-in credit is a discount, not income. See how fixed charges, service fees and export metering fees quietly absorb your credit on a South African embedded generation account.
Do you apply for SSEG approval, or does your installer?
Your installer does the technical work, but you stay the SSEG applicant. A document-by-document look at who owns each step of the municipal submission.
Your exported solar credit is not the same as self-use
Exported solar is credited at a different rate to the retail power you avoid. Why the gap between export credit and self-use decides your array size.
Hybrid systems still need municipal approval at zero export
A zero-export hybrid inverter is still embedded generation. Here is what the municipal SSEG application asks for, and what your household has to supply.
The two numbers inside your bidirectional solar meter
Your bidirectional meter keeps two registers: one for import, one for export. Here is why the unit you keep at home is worth more than the one you send out.
Your exported solar earns less than the unit you buy
Follow one exported solar unit through the municipal meter, the export rate, the fixed fees that stay payable and the year-end treatment of surplus credit.