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City Energy Strategies Conference

City Energy Strategies Conference. Challenges and Opportunities for Local Energy Strategies: Restructuring in the Electricity Supply & Distribution Industries. Session Objectives. To debate : The impact of industry reform on local government

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City Energy Strategies Conference

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  1. City Energy Strategies Conference Challenges and Opportunities for Local Energy Strategies: Restructuring in the Electricity Supply & Distribution Industries

  2. Session Objectives • To debate: • The impact of industry reform on local government • The changing role of local government in relation to these industries • To identify: • Actions that local authorities could take

  3. Way Forward • National government needs to resolve the outstanding policy issues and communicate more effectively • Local government needs to proactively engage the ESI-EDI restructuring process

  4. Key Issues Outstanding • What are municipality’s governance responsibilities with respect to the ESI-EDI • We need to be clear about our objectives – and this relates to the equity issue. Government needs to resolve and clarify how REDs ownership will work • This entails the Asset Valuation Methodology • National government must resolve the issue around municipal funding • Free basic services and equitable share • Local government levy on electricity • Who will fund and undertake RDP electrification requires clarification • The credit control issue needs to unpacked and clarified for use of electricity as a punitive control mechanism (cut-offs)

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