Nersa admits some households owed refunds for paying unlawful electricity tariffs

South African households and businesses could be owed refunds after the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) admitted in the High Court in Pretoria that some electricity tariffs it approved were unlawful.The regulator formally conceded in its court papers that tariffs approved for Johannesburg, Ekurhuleni and Nelson Mandela Bay metropolitan municipalities, as well as Emfuleni and Madibeng local municipalities, were based on calculations containing errors.