Tag Archives: Cape Town
New electricity tariffs in Cape Town – what do you need to know?
So, today the new electricity tariffs came into effect in Cape Town – for residents who buy their electricity from the municipality as opposed to those who buy direct from Eskom. This means most Capetonians, save a few unlucky souls in parts of Tableview and Durbanville who were hit by an increase in April.
This post is aimed at those of you who are paying the municipality and not Eskom. Alderman Ian Neilson (an alderman is a senior councilor in the municipality) released a press statement a couple of days ago with all of the details, and if you’re interested you can check it out here. Continue reading
Video: Flat Panel Solar Collector
As discussed in an earlier post, a solar water heating system has two main components – the geyser (or hot water cylinder) and the collector. The collector is the panel (or set of evacuated tubes) that sits on your roof … Continue reading
We are a Cape Town based installer of solar geysers
Solar Science is based in Woodstock, Cape Town. We serve the whole of Cape Town and surrounding areas and specialise in the installation of solar geysers and panels. All of our products are SABS approved and Eskom accredited, and we … Continue reading
Simon talking about solar geysers
This is just a short video from the last installation we did – so that you can see what a solar geyser looks like and how it’s different from an ordinary geyser. In this case we look at a Solartherm … Continue reading
Electricity tariff increases in the City of Cape Town
Yesterday I wrote about the Eskom tariff increases here, and about the block tariff structure here. In today’s post I want to look specifically at how the City of Cape Town electricity tariffs will be going up on 1 July. … Continue reading
How will Nersa’s ‘block tariff’ system affect me?
In my earlier post here, I talked about the tariff increases that Eskom is committed to over the next 3 years – 24.8% this year, 25.1% next year and 25.9% the year after that. What I didn’t mention is that … Continue reading
Eskom will pay you cash if you buy one of our systems
Every South African by now is aware of the problems that Eskom has got itself into in the last few years. Blackouts have become a part of South African life, and we’ve found ways to adapt and get by when … Continue reading
So how much money can solar save me?
I described in an earlier post here, what a solar water heating system does. In a nutshell, it uses solar radiation to heat the water in your geyser, so that you don’t have to use the electrically powered element inside … Continue reading
The great debate: flat plate or vacuum tubes?
As discussed in an earlier post here, the way most solar water heating systems work is to circulate your water from your geyser, up through a ‘collector’ somewhere on your roof where it is heated by the sun, and back … Continue reading
Our first solar geyser installation
We put in our first solar geyser! Here is a pic:
