Nersa back in court

Regulator has failed to develop a new methodology as ordered by the court.

- Antoinette Slabbert

AfriForum will be back in the Pretoria High Court on Friday in an effort to get more than 100 municipalities that implemented unlawful electricity tariffs on 1 July to pay the money back to affected consumers.

This comes after the Supreme Court of Appeal last week responded favourably to a petition from energy regulator National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) and the SA Local Government Association (Salga) by granting them leave to appeal against a June ruling of the high court that the tariff increases were unlawful.

The appeal will be heard later by a full bench of the high court.

Moneyweb previously reported that AfriForum went to court to have Nersa's approval of municipal tariff increases for 2024-25 reviewed and set aside in cases where the decisions were not based on cost-of-supply studies.