Change your course, battleship! I am the lighthouse!

This Abstract was merely a copy and paste from one of the most popular business and engineering magazine at the beginning of this year 2010!

Have a look at it, and see why we must move towards REAL ELECTRICITY EFFICIENT BULBS - Which are no other than latest generation Solid State Light LED lights. (Pref. with SMD chip)

Very important! Not DIP LED!

                    BUT 5050 or 3528 SMD LED!

HERE:

The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) has approved a nominal Eskom power tariff increase of 24,8% as from April 1, 2010, and subsequent increases of 25,8% and 25,9% for 2011/12 and 2012/13 respectively.

Speaking at a Cabinet media briefing, Peters said that the guidelines effectively "capped" municipal tariff increase to around 15% in 2010/11, which would help dampen the effect on residential consumers, if implemented.

She also welcomed the National Energy Regulator's announcement on the "residential inclining block rate tariff structure", which provided a framework for the cross-subsidisation of low-income domestic consumers.

A day earlier, Nersa said that those municipal distributors that implemented the 34% increase in the 2009/10 financial year, a municipal guideline increase of 15,33% had been approved for implementation with effect from July 1, followed by 16,03% from July 1, 2011, and another 16,16 % from July 1, 2012. For those municipal distributors that implemented a different increase, Nersa would consider applications on a case-by-case basis.

A deadline of April 30, 2010, had been set for the submission of municipal tariff applications.

Meanwhile, the new block-tariff mechanism would translate (owing mainly to implementation issues) into a 10,59% reduction in the tariff, to 54,7c/kWh, for households consuming less than 50 kWhs monthly, and a reduction of 5,2%, to 58,48c/kWh, for those consuming between 51 kWhs and 350 kWhs monthly.

The tariff would increase by 5,4% and 5,5% in the 2011/12 and 2012/13 years respectively (rising eventually to 60,83c/kWh) for those in the sub-50-kWh band, and by 13,23% and 13,5% respectively for those consuming between 51 kWhs and 350 kWhs, with the price rising to 75,09c/kWh by the end of the MYPD2 period.

By contrast, households consuming between 351 kWhs and 600 kWhs monthly will face immediate increases of 21,95%, raising the price to 72,35c/kWh in 2010/11, with subsequent yearly increases of 25,8% and 25,9% planned, which would raise the price to 120c/kWh in 2012/13.

Those households consuming more than 601 kWhs monthly would face relatively punitive tariff increases of 35,82% to 83,74c/kWh in 2010/11, followed by increases of 25,8% and 25,9% in 2011/12 and 2012/13, which would raise the price to 132c/kWh by the end of the MYPD2 period.

Under the formula, Nersa allowed Eskom to recover its primary energy and operational costs; costs related to independent power producer (IPP) and cogeneration contracts; depreciation costs a return on assets and demand-side management (DSM).

Nersa allocated R5,4-billion for DSM over the three years, which should partly enable Eskom to roll out a number of its demand-dampening projects, such as solar water heaters.

Over the period, some R12,4-billion was also allocated to Eskom to cover contracts with IPPs and cogenerators.

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