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.
Embedded Generation Tariffs and Fees
Feed-in tariffs, connection fees, net billing and embedded generation tariff structures.
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.
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.
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.
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.