Ted Blom and the Energy Expert Coalition (eeco) have launched a fight against the ridiculous 33% increases and plan to bring down tariffs! Click here > https://eeco.co.za/projects/comment-on-tariff-hikes/ You are invited to comment on Eskom's request to increase tariffs to recover R66bn lost during the years included in the Public Protector's “State of Capture Report”. Despite massive corruption, inefficiencies and irregular expenditure, Eskom still shows a bottom line profit of over R20 billion before the RCA claims from 2013 to 2016. 2014 shows a net profit of R5,183bn (+R10bn RCA) 2015 shows R7,089bn (+R19.18bn RCA) 2016 shows R3.6bn (+R23.6bn RCA 2017 shows R4,617bn (+R23.8bn RCA) Eskom is planning to recover losses from corruption and loopholes in the MYPD rules by further increasing your tariffs by an estimated 33% before the end of 2018. Effectively, Eskom will never run at a loss as any shortfall is recovered through a flawed annual Regulatory Clearing Account (RCA) application. In other words, Eskom recovers any shortfall in projections by increasing consumer's tariffs the following year. This increase is over and above annual tariff increases. Traditionally, once these RCA increases are added to electricity tariffs and the funds recovered, prices are not readjusted back to normal. This practice then resumes the following year as Eskom once again over-estimates their sales. http://eeco.co.za/projects/comment-on-tariff-hikes/ Have your say now at the link above.