EDITORIAL: No getting away from who will pay for Eskom’s excesses
Consumers will not be spared the cost of the power utility’s sins
17 October 2019 - 05:10
Apart from running Eskom, the most demoralising job in SA might be regulating electricity prices.
For the National Energy Regulator of SA (Nersa), it’s a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” situation. In its efforts to strike a balance between the interests of Eskom and the consumer, it is only when no-one is happy with the regulator’s decision that it can be sure it has done its job properly...
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