Blue Crane Route Municipality

Blue Crane Route Municipality implemented a basic charge for all pre-paid electricity users as from 1 July 2018. In the past, only conventional electricity users paid a basic charge for electricity. The implication of this in the past, was that pre-paid users only paid for electricity unit purchases that the municipality then used to pay Eskom. The... se households did not contribute to the other cost components to get the electricity services to their respective houses. A lot of maintenance was also neglected by the municipality, due to the fact that in the past pre-paid electricity households did not pay this basic fee. In short, the sole purpose of this basic charge, is to pay for the electricity infrastructure in order to get the electricity service to our clients . This charge will not be used to pay for the electricity units itself. Council also made sure, that starting from 1 July 2018, there are no discrepancies between the electricity tariffs paid by conventional and that of prepaid electricity users. Everyone will pay the same. This basic charge will be ringfenced by the municipality and will only be used for future electricity maintenance.Read More