The Front Page - My Broadband On Eskom Setting Out To Charge Solar Users And Others For Not Using Its Electricity

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Fresh and Thato spoke to Editor at MyBroadband, Jan Vermeulen on Eskom's latest results presentation revealing concerning push to recover revenue despite falling sales volumes. Even if households go solar or cut usage, Eskom intends to charge them through network fees, "wheeling" charges, and fixed-cost tariffs. This after the power utility previously explained that it needed to charge a monthly grid connection fee to recover its costs for maintaining the infrastructure that connects to people‘s homes. 
11 Sep 12AM English South Africa News

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