MINISTER of Minerals and Energy Affairs Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said on Thursday the government plans to create an electricity distribution company separate from state-owned electricity giant Eskom. “The distribution section of Eskom will be completely outside Eskom and will form the new electricity distribution company,” Mlambo-Ngcuka told a media briefing in parliament. The minister said the company, to be called Electricity Distribution Industrial Holdings, would preside over developing competence at the regional level to distribute energy, which could take three to five years to implement.