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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 />

Page 129 of 144<br />

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

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