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Tracey Ledger

Tracey Ledger

Senior Researcher and Just Transition Programme Lead at the Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI) in South Africa, specializing in energy poverty, institutional reform, and food systems

Jul 16, 2026

26:58
Are they providing models that other places could be following?
27:02
I think it, it's-- there's no doubt that the City of Cape Town is, is leading in terms of feed-in tariffs and in terms of flexibility to allow consumers to feed excess power into the grid.
27:15
And what we're saying is that what, what we've seen in some of the other municipalities is a, is a slightly more confrontational approach taken by the municipality.
27:23
So for example, if you have solar panels, then you're not allowed to be on prepaid anymore, and you have to go to a much more expensive post-paid account.
27:32
You have to go on a time of use tariff.
27:34
And unfortunately, what these municipalities are doing is they're just creating an incentive for people to go off grid, particularly because electricity prices are going up by significant amounts above inflation and, and salary increases.
27:49
So what municipalities are doing is they're creating an incentive for people to go off the grid, which is exactly what they don't want.
29:19
That mechanism for the councils, they will have to invest in.

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