{"id":8068,"date":"2009-05-15T16:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T14:29:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-05-15T16:29:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-15T14:29:00","slug":"eskom-asks-for-34-price-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/8068-eskom-asks-for-34-price-hike.html","title":{"rendered":"Eskom asks for 34% price hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nersa said in a notice published in the Business Day today that it received Eskom&rsquo;s interim price increase application on Tuesday last week.<\/p>\n<p>The application requests a 25% real increase while the 34% increase makes provision for inflation.<\/p>\n<p>Eskom last year asked for a 53% increase, or 60% nominal increase, to cover rising primary energy costs such as coal and the accelerated demand-side management that had been necessitated by the power crisis.<\/p>\n<p>This was rejected by Nersa, which approved increases that amounted to an average 27.5% increase year on year.<\/p>\n<p>At the time Nersa said it supported the smoothing of tariffs and said it sees tariff hikes of 20-25% per annum over the next three years.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=171950\">Eskom price hike<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; give your views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom, South Africa\u2019s power utility, has asked the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) for a 34% nominal tariff increase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}