National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA)
We Dodged the Karpowership Bullet That We Loaded Ourselves
South Africa escaped a 20-year, dollar-indexed gas bet on 1 220 MW of floating power.…
MTSAO 2027–2031: An Open Letter to NERSA, Before You Concur
The coal exit is dated in law. The replacement is not. Three decisions by the…
The Hormuz Warning South Africa Refuses to Hear
Three months ago, I published a paper documenting a gap almost nobody wanted to look…
DA Urges South Africans to Challenge Electricity Pricing Policy Before 27 September Deadline
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has called on South Africans to use the public participation process…
The Gas Bridge South Africa Can’t Afford
South Africa faces a real capacity cliff between 2029 and March 2030: roughly 9.5 GW of dispatchable capacity, driven mostly by coal retirements under Minimum Emission Standards and the expiry of the Cahora Bassa import contract. IRP 2025’s answer — around 6 GW of imported LNG-fired CCGT — solves the availability problem on paper, but converts it into an affordability and currency problem that current planning barely models. Worse, NERSA’s new electricity Trading Rules (Version 3, May 2026) create a…
Eskom Cannot Build Its Way Into Your City. The Court Just Confirmed It.
On the morning of 8 June 2026, a judgment landed quietly in the Gauteng Division of the High Court. No fanfare. No public broadcast. Just 18 pages from Judge Anthony Millar that, in my reading, redraw the legal boundaries of South Africa’s electricity sector more definitively than anything that has come before — including the Electricity Regulation Amendment Act. The case is City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality v National Energy Regulator of South Africa & Eskom Holdings SOC Limited [1].…