A high-stakes power play between Johannesburg’s electricity distributor, City Power, and Eskom Distribution has reached a fragile settlement, ending a four-year, R4.9bn dispute that has laid bare critical failings in South Africa’s electricity distribution industry.
At the centre of the dispute was City Power’s claim that Eskom had significantly overbilled it for bulk electricity supplied between July 2020 and September 2024.
The dispute, which escalated into a protracted financial and technical standoff, led to an…
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