--- title: A hidden charge in your electricity bill is being scrapped description: South Africa's energy minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has unveiled a revised electricity pricing policy replacing the 2008 framework, set to go out for public... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/a-hidden-charge-in-your-electricity-bill-is-being-scrapped-zywg3ul11 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: A hidden charge in your electricity bill is being scrapped | daily.dev og:description: South Africa's energy minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has unveiled a revised electricity pricing policy replacing the 2008 framework, set to go out for public... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/a-hidden-charge-in-your-electricity-bill-is-being-scrapped-zywg3ul11 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ZyWg3uL11.png og:image:alt: A hidden charge in your electricity bill is being scrapped og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # A hidden charge in your electricity bill is being scrapped **[TechCentral](https://daily.dev/sources/techcentral)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary South Africa's energy minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has unveiled a revised electricity pricing policy replacing the 2008 framework, set to go out for public comment. Key changes include requiring Nersa to publish a rolling 10-year price forecast for industrial investors, and barring Eskom and municipalities from recovering unpaid customer debt (1-2.5% of current tariffs) through tariffs on paying customers. Municipalities must instead justify costs via cost-of-supply studies. The policy also sets rules for a wholesale electricity market with bilateral generator-offtaker agreements, plans a national database for free basic electricity, and widens eligibility for concessional industrial power pricing beyond just financially distressed firms. Tariffs have risen over 900% since 2007, and the policy does not reverse past increases. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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