Legal challenge to be filed against Eskom, Nersa, ministers and president over load-shedding and tariff hike

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Legal challenge filed against Eskom, Nersa, ministers and president over load-shedding and tariff hike: Opposition parties, union will be heading to the Pretoria high court court on February 28

and the government as a whole meet certain demands by January 20, failing which they would launch a constitutional challenge with regard to ongoing load-shedding.

“Frequent blackouts also affect medical equipment — as health equipment has been upgraded and requires an uninterrupted power source, they get damaged as continuous power cuts occur. He added that municipalities were battling rampant cable theft, with instances drastically increasing over the festive period because of load-shedding.

The EAF is the percentage of Eskom’s generation capacity that’s available, compared to its overall installed generation capacity.

 

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I think the High Court will uphold the decision of NERSA. For the second part I believe the IRP needs to be scrapped and a technical expert needs to look at Eskom's grid & determine what renewables go where and how much to be placed. Then go to the open market for it.

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