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/ 26 February 2010
Some relief for poor and low-usage households as regulator hikes prices, writes <i>Lynley Donnelly</i>.
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/ 22 January 2010
The process used by the National Energy Regulator of SA to determine Eskom’s tariff hikes was now deeply flawed, a number of speakers said on Friday.
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/ 22 January 2010
Eskom’s proposed tariff hike will lead to more bad debts for municipalities, the SA Local Government Association (Salga) said on Friday.
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/ 19 January 2010
WWF on Tuesday questioned the integrity of the National Energy Regulator of South Africa’s (Nersa) public hearings into Eskom’s proposed tariff hike.
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/ 13 January 2010
It was better for the country to swallow the "bitter pill" of an electricity tariff hike now, Eskom’s acting chief executive told hearings on Tuesday.
Nersa’s hearings on Eskom’s massive tariff hikes begins soon but government hasn’t made the plan it is based on available. Read our leaked copy.
Municipalities are at risk whether Eskom’s interim price increase of 34% was granted or not, the South African Local Government Association said.
Transnet was in talks with government over alternative funding after an announcement on tariff reductions was made by the National Energy Regulator.
The National Energy Regulator of South Africa reduced tariffs for transport of petroleum products via Transnet’s pipelines, Nersa said on Monday.
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/ 18 February 2009
Nersa will take into account changes in the economic environment and a decision to guarantee loans for Eskom when deciding the next tarrif rise.
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/ 13 December 2008
Nersa laid out the rules for its power conservation programme on Friday, in a bid for reaction from the public and affected sectors by early January.
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/ 20 November 2008
State-owned utility Eskom is to review its plan to raise tariffs on power in light of the global financial turmoil.
Consumers are in for a tough time unless government injects more cash into Eskom.
Eskom has been given permission to have ”commercially sensitive” information on its proposed 53% tariff increase withheld from publication, the National Electricity Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) said on Monday. ”It is information that Eskom feels is commercially sensitive — just a paragraph here and there,” said Nersa spokesperson Charles Hlebela.
Eskom was to ask the National Energy Regulator of South Africa to withhold sections of its tariff-increase application from the public at a meeting on Monday on the grounds that the information was ”business sensitive”, the regulator said. Eskom, which was granted a 14,2% increase at the end of last year, is now seeking a 53% hike.