Last year, the City of Cape Town announced that residents would have to register their rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) installations with the city, or risk being hit with a fine. As of today (Tuesday, May 28), you now have just three days left to register, “or be disconnected from the city’s electricity grid, a service for which they will then have to pay via a disconnection fine”. Those who don’t register could be cut off from the Eskom grid, which comes with a whopping R6 426 disconnection fee. – when the output is connected to the household wiring and is connected to the City’s grid through the meter. Off-grid SSEG – not electrically connected to the electricity grid in any way.