Prepaid Electricity Rates Per Unit 2019 South Africa

A new network surcharge of 6c kwh is been introduced with effect from 1 july 2018.

Prepaid electricity rates per unit 2019 south africa. By the reduced rate per unit. Property tariff increase impact 2017 2018. Many people are often confused about the price of electricity units and they believe that the electricity price is the same throughout south africa. Tariff b post paid and pre paid the cost of electricity in tariff b does not increase with usage this tariff will suit users who use more that 600 units in one month.

Electricity tariff the average increase of 7 17 is as applied to the national regulator of south africa nersa. City power prepaid tariffs for 2020 2021. On 28 february 2013 nersa granted eskom an average increase in the price of electricity of 8 per annum between 2013 and 2018. R1 5836 per unit r1 58 between 600 and 700 units you will pay r2 6917 per unit r2 69 above 700 units you will pay r7 5634 per unit r7 56 these prices include 15 vat.

All electricity consumed used to attract a demand side management levy of 2c kwh. This levy is been discontinued. Tariffs in brief tariffs electricity increase impact 2017 2018. Residential consumption of 500kwh per.

The city of johannesburg coj has introduced new electricity tariffs for the 2019 20 period including a nasty shock for prepaid users. Nersa also determined the municipal electricity price increases following the increase eskom has been allowed to charge the municipalities. 2018 refuse tariff increase 201819 nersa approved schedule of tariffs public. Basically this means that the more electricity you buy in a month the more you pay per unit of electricity.

Citiq prepaid explains tariffs. Commercial users prepaid and conventional will pay a basic charge of r485 per month. The energy charge will be 170c per kwh and for industrial tariffs more than 100 amps a basic charge of r1 368 per month will be payable while energy charge is set at 74c per kwh. Eskom annual price increase 2020 21 on 9 march 2020 the national energy regulator of south africa nersa approved eskom s allowable revenue from standard tariff customers to be 8 76 which will be implemented on 1 april 2020 for eskom direct customers and 6 90 for municipalities which will be implemented on 1 july 2020.

By michael franze managing director at citiq prepaid. New electricity rates kicked in on 1 july with municipal electricity tariffs increasing by around 13 to 16. National energy regulator of south africa gave the go ahead for the reimplementation of a fixed charge. This is not always the case.

Demand charges are set at r205 per kva. In the case of prepaid customers it. 2018 2019 tariffs amended version city of johannesburg budget insert.