Both the ANC and EFF dismissed the the bill as ‘superfluous and not doing [anything] innovative’
Parliament has made short shrift of a DA-sponsored bill proposing the introduction of a privately owned electricity grid operator.
The IEMO Bill had a large number of similarities with the Eskom roadmap tabled by Gordhan a year ago, proposing the vertical disaggregation of Eskom into generation, distribution and transmission units to enable competition in generation, and the establishment of an independent grid operator and buying office.
DA member Kevin Mileham argued that the DA model was compatible with World Bank advice, which advocates that no market participant should be involved in the grid operator.
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