Nersa calls out to public to comment on Eskom's request to increase tariffs

Eskom is planning to recover losses from corruption and loopholes in the MYPD rules by increasing your tariffs by an estimated 30% before the end of 2018. Nersa has invited the public to comment on Eskom’s request to increase tariffs to recover R66bn lost between 2014 and 2017 – the years included in the Public Protector’s “State of Capture Report”. “In order to recover this money, it would need to increase tariffs by 33%,” Yelland explained. “That is what Eskom will ask for at Nersa, this is not to say that they will get it.”

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