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Soweto Gogo Votes for Solar Power

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Eskoms debt is estimated at R450 Billion.

Collectively Municipalities owe Eskom R17 Billion and Soweto, a direct customer, owes R18 Billion.

88% of Soweto’s customers do not pay any money to Eskom at all.

In the Carte Blanche video below, Soweto Resident, Mirriam Mayisela owes Eskom over R30 000 on an electricity account that hovers around the R400.00 per month mark.

With reference to the installation of Solar Power Mayisela says; “It will be better because it absorbs the sun’s rays. Solar Power, I think would lift the burden off our shoulders because the wind, the sun, that’s for free. I will bridge my electricity if you (Eskom) don’t install solar panels.”

The bump in the road for Mirriam is that someone needs to pay for the equipment needed to produce Solar Power and, for Soweto’s estimated 360 000 households, that could be a big number.

FUN FACT: If Eskom were to install a 3 Kilowatt Solar Power system on each household in Soweto it would, at a cost of R17000 per kilowatt, cost R18.36 Billion rand – equal to the amount outstanding!

Related:

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