Check if your home qualifies
Two quick questions about your system, then where to send your review. We reply within one business day.
Your export eligibility review
A written assessment of your property: how much you can export, what your credits would be worth, and whether the new Time-of-Use tariff suits you. It's free, and it commits you to nothing.
~R1,000 credited in December on our co-founder's own 10kW system, verified on the municipal statement.
- Free to checkNo payment now, and no obligation to proceed.
- R2,000 due only on approvalPayable once the City issues your metering quotation.
- Reply within one business dayA person reviews your system, not a bot.
A City-installed AMI feed-in meter is mandatory and charged separately at the City's quoted rate. Street-boundary metering work may add cost.
R4,000 covers the engineer, the paperwork and the follow-up with the City.
What's included
- Eligibility and inverter validation — we confirm your inverter is on the City's approved list before anything is submitted
- Supply and MEC verification — breaker rating, phase configuration and overhead-supply check
- On-site documentation visit — we come to the property and photograph the installation to the engineer's standard
- Application preparation and submission — the full City SSEG export submission, assembled and lodged
- ECSA professional sign-off — coordinated with our contracted registered engineer
- City correspondence and queries — we hold the file and answer, so you don't
- Metering and activation tracking — through to meter installation and your first credited month
- Tariff migration guidance — the Home User move, and your Time-of-Use position
What's not in our fee
Three costs are set by the City and your existing installation, not by us. We establish all three before you commit to anything.
- City AMI bidirectional meter — quoted and charged directly by the City. Required for any exporting home.
- Street-boundary meter box or cabling — where the existing metering position doesn't meet the City's requirements. This is the variable that most often changes the arithmetic.
- Remedial electrical work — where the installation needs correction before the City will approve it.
We price these into your assessment before you pay the balance. If the total puts your payback period somewhere you'd rather not go, we will tell you so and you will not proceed. We would rather lose the application than register a home that shouldn't have been registered.
How you pay
Each R2,000 is invoiced when it falls due, and settled by Visa or Mastercard card, or by Instant EFT straight from your bank. The eligibility check is free — nothing is payable until you book.
What it costs, and what you get back
Upfront cost, paid once
R10,651.90
Everything you pay to get a standard single-phase home registered and exporting.
How we get to R10,651.90
| City two-way meter (AMI meter), incl. VATQuoted and charged directly by the City | R6,651.90 |
| Grid Okes, on bookingSite inspection, engineer and application | R2,000 |
| Grid Okes, once the City issues your metering quotationOnly due if your application gets that far | R2,000 |
| Total, once-off | R10,651.90 |
Every month after that
~R724 back on your bill
Estimated net credit for a 10kW system, after the City's monthly meter fee.
How we get to ~R724
| Export credit, 2026/27 residential rateWhat the City credits for each kWh you send back | R1.33 / kWh |
| Estimated monthly credit, 10kW systemAbout 550 kWh exported a month × R1.33 | ~R731 |
| AMI meter administration feeCharged monthly by the City | −R7 |
| Net credit, per month | ~R724 |
This is a yearly average. Summer months run higher: our own 10kW system was credited about R1,000 in December.
Pays for itself in about fifteen months. R10,651.90 upfront, recovered at roughly R724 a month.
The meter is a City requirement for any registered export system, not a Grid Okes charge — you pay it whichever way the application is submitted. It is also the only route onto the City's residential Time-of-Use tariff, which lets a household with a battery buy at off-peak rates instead of peak ones. We tell you whether that is worth doing for your property.
Some properties need a compliant street-boundary meter box or cabling before the City will connect. Where that applies, we establish it and price it before you pay the balance.
The full cost detail, including how the credit is calculated →
The R2,000 balance falls due only when the City issues your metering quotation. If a rejection is within our control — documentation, submission, or a compliance issue our screening should have caught — it is never invoiced, and refunded if you have already paid it. The first R2,000 has paid the site visit and the ECSA professional, who is paid for the assessment and not for the outcome. Property-specific requirements and the City's own approval decisions sit outside that.
What people usually ask
If your property is valued at R1 million or more you are already billed on Home User, and its R424.30 monthly fixed charge is already on your statement. Below that threshold you would be moving onto it, which is a real change to your bill — the fixed charge is higher and the per-unit rate lower, so whether you come out ahead depends on how much you use. We model both before you commit.
It suits households with battery storage that can shift consumption out of peak periods. It suits a home without a battery far less, and the tariff carries no free basic electricity allocation. The City moves nobody across automatically — it takes a written request.
We model both tariffs against your property during the assessment and tell you which is better for you. If Time-of-Use is the answer, we submit the request. Time-of-Use feed-in rates are not yet in service; the City has said they will follow once its systems have been tested, so export credits are at the standard rate either way.
If the rejection was caused by something within our control — documentation, submission, or a compliance issue our screening should have caught — you are not invoiced for the R2,000 balance, and we refund it if you have already paid.
If it was caused by the property itself, we tell you plainly what the City requires and what it is likely to cost. The first R2,000 covers the site inspection and the ECSA-registered professional, who is paid for the assessment whether or not the application succeeds.