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Thursday, June 25, 2009
Higher Electricity Tarrifs & New Levy on Non-Renewable Power Generation Comes into effect on 1 July 2009
Eskom's Electricity tariffs will increase as from 1 July 2009 by an amount of 31.3% (this is slightly short of the massive 34% increase Eskom applied for). Read more here, in this Engineering News Article. At the same time, read this Engineering News article about the 2c/kWh (SARS) tax on electricity generated from non-renewable resources which will also be implemented starting 1 July.
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