The National Consumer Forum will request the National Energy Regulator to reject Eskom’s 34% price hike, it said on Tuesday.
Green lobbyists fear that draft regulations on electricity generation released by government recently, may undermine investment into renewable energy.
State-owned utility Eskom is to review its plan to raise tariffs on power in light of the global financial turmoil.
A week after parliamentarians handed in a private members Bill on feed-in tariffs, government has promised to have a strategy by February.
Obama is right about energy keeping them pumped up. Lynley Donnelly reports.
The spike in primary energy costs, mainly coal and diesel, has put a massive dent in Eskom’s bottom line, the utility revealed in its annual results.
