On 18 and 19 November 2024, community members and civil society organisations from across The Cape Flats and broader City of Cape Town will have their voices and concerns heard at the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) public hearings on Eskom‘s Sixth Multi-Year Price Determination (MYPD 6) Revenue Application for Financial years [...]
As from 1 July 2024, the City of Cape Town and Eskom implemented new electricity tariffs, affecting households across various consumption levels. The tariff adjustments are a response to rising electricity generation costs from Eskom, coupled with ongoing issues related to load shedding and the need for infrastructure maintenance. This post outlines the most important [...]
In September 2018, Eskom submitted their revenue application for FY2019/20 - 2021/22 to the National Energy Regulator South Africa (NERSA). NERSA published a call for submissions soon thereafter. Project 90 by 2030 puts forward the following submission for NERSA’s attention. While this submission will look into a number of issues we picked up in Eskom’s [...]
ESKOM PRICE HIKES FORCE CITIZENS TO CHOOSE: COOK FOOD OR LEAVE THE LIGHTS ON? PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CAPE TOWN, Western Cape, Thursday 29 November, 2018 Background Eskom has been granted a number of tariff increases by the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) amounting to a 300% increase from 2007 to 2015 [...]
"Reaching a 15% renewable target by 2020 will not cost the earth..." This is one of the key findings in a recent study by Dr Andrew Marquard, Bruno Merven and Emily Tyler from the Energy Research Centre, University of Cape Town. Commissioned by the Climate Change Programme of WWF South Africa, the study explores the [...]
