Government’s free basic electricity (FBE) programme has failed to provide financial relief to poor South Africans, according to environmental researcher Dr Neil Overy and EarthLife Africa Johannesburg ...

Nersa has approved a National Free Basic Electricity (NFBE) rate of 194.40c/kWh for the 2024/25 municipal financial year. Nersa made the decision at its meeting held on 30 May 2024. The new rate will ...

Eskom board chair Mteto Nyati has called for the government to increase the free basic electricity (FBE) grant from 50kWh and for municipalities to ring-fence their electricity budgets to ensure the ...

Energy and electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa said this was due to “challenges” in municipalities regarding the rate at which they registered the indigent. “Municipalities are receiving this ...

Electricity provision by municipalities, particularly in smaller municipalities, is becoming increasingly unsustainable. A confluence of rising costs, high unemployment, and the inadequacy of current ...

The vast majority of indigent households served by City Power, the municipal electricity distributor for the City of Johannesburg, are in for a nasty surprise, with massive cost increases from 1 July ...