Industry Think Tank - Registration of SSEG

[Dave A]

The Electrical Contractors Association (SA) is hosting an industry think tank session with the topic Navigating the Registration Requirements for Small-Scale Embedded Generation (SSEG) Installations

The online session will be on 3 October 2025 via Zoom - from 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM SAST

The program is as follows:

Time	Session Title & Presenter
10:00–10:15	Welcome & Introduction – Grant Seeman
10:15–10:30	SSEG Registration – Danie Esterhuizen
10:30–11:00	Municipality Requirements – Ismail Jefferies
11:00–11:20	Q&A
11:20–11:30	Break
11:30–12:00	Eskom Requirements – Silesh Mansingh
12:00–12:20	Q&A
12:20–12:30	Break
12:30–13:00	To Register or Not? – Nicolaas Faure
13:00–13:30	SSEG Sign-Off – Danie Esterhuizen
13:30–14:00	Q&A – Nicolaas Faure and Danie Esterhuizen

You can register for this free think tank session using this registration link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...SE-Yqp7EcsS9AQ

This forms part of a series of Industry Think Tank Sessions on SSEG that has been hosted by the ECA SA in an effort to expose and resolve the many questions and challenges faced by electrical contractors, homeowners and other stakeholders in the SSEG industry.

[Tradie]

This is the 3rd session, can we view session 1 and 2?

After going through the whole registration process (to do the right thing), paid the enigineer, submitted all the documents, we are waiting for the registration and told there are no meters and that we cannot feedabck into the grid.

The solar project has gone from a great idea with prospects of some form of ROI (due to the size and power producing capabilites) to a white elephant, which cost the customer a lot of money.

To add salt to the wound, parts are starting to fail (not just this site), the supplier has dumped the product and moved to another product, so now we are having to find the old packaging, to box the unit to send all the way back to JHB. One of the reasons I am reluctant to buy anything from the supplier in case they decide to dump the new kid on the block.

This could also expalin why we are now installing more generators than solar.

For R100k you can get a 20 kva single phase (95 amps), 1500 RPM diesel generator, that can run your house and your neighbours house for as long as there is diesel, come rain or shine.

Unless you are going to waste a ton of cash on roof tops full of solar, and batteries stacked to the roof, you still going to sit in the dark when you experience grid failures for days, or cloudy days.

[Tradie]

What did we take away from this think tank, the same tune is playing in ALL the online meetings, I have attended, with too little interaction and feedback from the attendees.

Something is going to go bang and the loser is going to be, as always, the public.

Eskom and the muncipalities are going to hammer the public, by implemanting, disconnections and hefty fines, and the public are going to cry not enough public awareness.

When it happens, best you have already left the indutry if you havent done everything by the book