Cape Town has become the first city to enable residential households to earn cash for power from their solar PV generation systems.

Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis announced that a first round of applications is open until 8 March for households to earn actual cash from selling their excess solar power to the City, going beyond the existing automatic crediting of municipal bills.

Hill-Lewis was speaking at the launch of the City’s Energy Strategy at the Cape Town International Convention Centre on 12 February.

The strategy sets out a roadmap to 2050, including short-term plans to protect against the first four stages of Eskom load-shedding by 2026.

In the short-term, the City is planning for four stages of load-shedding protection by 2026.

How to apply to get Cash for Power

It is important to note that customers wishing to only offset their electricity and rates accounts, do not need to apply and will automatically be compensated on authorisation of their grid-tied SSEG system with feed-in.

If customers are interested to go above and beyond this, they can register and get cash for their power – where any remaining credit will accumulate until it reaches a certain amount and then the City will pay you out.

Cash for Power applications are open for all residential customers on the home user tariff with an approved grid-tied SSEG system and bi-directional AMI meter to feed power back into the grid.

Interested parties are required to first be registered as a service provider on both the City Supplier Database and the National Treasury Web Based Central Supplier Database (CSD), accessible from the links below:

• City of Cape Town’s Supplier Database registration: https://www.capetown.gov.za/City-Connect/Register/Business-and-trade/Register-as-a-supplier
• National Treasury Web Based Central Supplier Database (CSD) registration: https://secure.csd.gov.za
• Cash for Power applications for this round should be submitted to hoosain.essop@capetown.gov.za by 8 March 2024.

Any submissions received after this date will be kept for the next round, with the date to be announced after this first round closes on 8 March 2024.

View the Energy Strategy

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