MossRates
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE MOSSEL BAY POWER HIKE
The municipality officially approved the 8.5% electricity hike and fixed capacity charges. They did this despite explicit warnings that the underlying data is deeply flawed.We do not want you to just take our word for it. We want you to independently audit the evidence yourself. We have made the raw data completely transparent.
Download the documents below and run them through any AI assistant (like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini). Ask it to calculate the real-time financial impact on your household based on NERSA guidelines.
1. READ THE FULL REPORTSee the complete interactive breakdown of how the tariff decisions affect your pocket: Click to Read the Detail (https://mossrates-srskzkwx.manus.space/)
2. DOWNLOAD THE RAW MUNICIPAL COS STUDYExamine the official, outdated 2020/21 baseline data used by the municipality's consultants:
Click To Read The Detail: COS Electrical.pdf
3. DOWNLOAD THE INDEPENDENT ERRORS REPORTReview the verified structural anomalies, formula failures, and hidden distribution losses:
Click To Read the Detail: MosselBay COS Errors Report Final.pdf
Here are the three critical technical components of our challenge:
A. The Core Data & Regulatory Violations
Our technical review of the documentation reveals clear structural failures that violate National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) benchmarks:
• Outdated Baseline Data (COS.1): The approved tariff structure relies on a Cost of Supply (COS) study built entirely on 2020/21 financial year data. This data is five to six years old and completely fails to account for the massive post-2022 private solar migration (SSEG), which has fundamentally altered consumer load profiles in Mossel Bay.
• Inflated Loss Factors (COS.2): The COS model bakes in a structural distribution loss factor of 12.72%, directly violating NERSA's strict maximum efficiency loss benchmark cap of 12%. Furthermore, official municipal IDP metrics admit actual operational energy losses have deteriorated to 16.87%—costing ratepayers roughly R100 million annually in unrecovered Eskom bulk purchases.
• Mathematical Negligence (COS.3 - COS.5): The model contains visible Excel formatting failures, including un-reconciled #DIV/0! cell calculation errors, an absolute zero-revenue forecast for approximately 25 million kWh of distributed energy, and the total omission of "Item O" (Total Allowable Revenue), making independent regulatory verification mathematically impossible.
• Double dipping The Mossel Bay municipality's cost-of-supply study omitted the national Equitable Share grant, which is designed to fund free basic services for indigent households. By excluding this grant, the tariff structure forces paying consumers to fund the full cost of indigent services while the municipality retains the grant revenue for other operational purposes, effectively creating a financial "double-dip"
B. The Direct Financial Impact on Your Pocket
The approved 8.5% escalation locks in severe fixed charges before a single kilowatt-hour of energy is consumed. Single-phase network capacity fees increase to R8.9820 per Amp monthly:
• 20A Connection: R179.64 baseline fee per month
• 40A Connection: R359.28 baseline fee per month
• 60A Connection: R538.92 baseline fee per month
• 80A Connection: R718.56 baseline fee per month
Additionally, the energy usage charge moves to R3.3551/kWh (inclusive of VAT), paired with a restrictive new administrative rule making prepaid tokens expire exactly 3 months from the date of purchase.
C. Read the full report:
•https://mossrates-srskzkwx.manus.space
Under Section 15 of the South African Electricity Regulation Act, a licensee is only legally entitled to recover costs matching an efficient operation. Loading systemic technical inefficiencies and outdated load profiles onto compliant consumers violates this principle.
We are currently formalizing our technical submission directly to NERSA to dispute these approvals.
Thank you for your continued support as we fight for transparent, data-driven municipal governance.
Regards
Board of Directors
MossRates
NPC (2025/800784/08)
info@mossrates.co.za
mossrates.co.za
Ratepayers deserve data-driven transparency, not artificial costs to cover system inefficiencies.
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