Submission to the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA)

On 5 February 2021, FMF made a submission to NERSA which can be read HERE.

Preliminary

The Free Market Foundation expresses its sincere appreciation for both the Ministerial Determination and the opportunity to submit this Comment.

We are an economic policy thinktank. As such we have no bias for or against any energy source.

It is clear from the world's experience, available data and economic theory that prosperity cannot be achieved without substantially increased, dependable, constant and affordable electricity supply.

Many if not most modes of production should be included in the "energy mix", subject to everything being contextually and economically rational.

The FMF urges the government to move from the statutory "strategic industry" monopoly it inherited from the apartheid regime towards modern, rational and viable market-driven post-apartheid alternatives.