Part 1 Revenue Application: Multi-Year Price Determination ... - Eskom
Part 1 Revenue Application: Multi-Year Price Determination ... - Eskom
Part 1 Revenue Application: Multi-Year Price Determination ... - Eskom
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Overview of <strong>Multi</strong>-<strong>Year</strong> <strong>Price</strong> <strong>Determination</strong><br />
2013/14–2017/18 (MYPD 3)<br />
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Homelight 20A (typically low-consumption rural and small urban households who<br />
only use power for a few electrical appliances): a single energy rate lifeline tariff<br />
to cater for the poor.<br />
Homelight 60A (typically suburban higher-usage households who use more<br />
electrical appliances, including a geyser. This tariff can also apply to non-<br />
governmental organisations, government facilities, churches, schools, halls,<br />
clinics and old-age homes in urban areas): a revised IBT with two blocks;<br />
combining the first three blocks with the rate slightly higher than the lifeline tariff<br />
rate and increasing second block rates.<br />
Homepower suite of tariffs: Homepower 1, 2, 3 and 4 with fixed-charge tariff<br />
options for higher consumption supplies.<br />
Types of residential power supply<br />
<strong>Eskom</strong>‟s residential customers receive one of two sizes of electricity supply.<br />
Twenty-ampere (20A) single-phase supplies are typically used by low-consumption<br />
customers and can only power a few electrical appliances at the same time. Government<br />
housing projects typically use 20A supplies. Customers on a 20A supply usually qualify for a<br />
free connection and subsidised usage rates.<br />
Sixty-ampere (60A) three-phase supplies are typically used by higher-usage residential<br />
customers and cater for customers that have more electrical appliances, including a geyser.<br />
They include communal facilities such as churches, schools, halls, clinics and old-age<br />
homes in residential areas. Customers on a 60A supply are also subsidised, albeit to a<br />
lesser extent, but have to pay a connection fee based on the cost of connection.<br />
Greater than 60A supplies are used by high-consumption residential customers who have<br />
many electrical appliances. This tariff category is not subsidised and contributes to<br />
subsidies.<br />
Medium-to-high-usage residential customers in urban areas with a notified maximum<br />
demand of up to 100kVA can currently also choose to go onto a TOU tariff option that<br />
charges a higher tariff during peak hours and for winter but lower tariffs for off-peak periods