Policy follow-through needed to ensure electricity reforms are ‘not in name only’

Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA) CEO Busisiwe Mavuso has called for policy follow-through to ensure that the restructuring under way in the electricity industry facilitates a transition to a market that is genuinely competitive and “not reform in name only”. Writing in her weekly newsletter, Mavuso homed in on the importance that organised business was attaching to the creation of an independent transmission system operator (TSO), which also owned the grid assets, to the emergence of a competitive market.

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