Sasol wins tariff case

ORDER: NERSA FACES ANOTHER COSTLY SETBACK IN LATEST BUNGLE

- Roy Cokayne

Another tariff determination has been bungled by the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa).

Sasol Oil has successfully secured the review and set aside of Nersa's decision to approve the tariffs applicable to Transnet's petroleum pipeline system for the period 1 April, 2023 to 31 March, 2024, in terms of the Promotion of Administrative Justice Act (Paja), or alternatively under the principle of legality, in the High Court in Pretoria.

Judge David Makhoba further ordered Nersa's decision be remitted back to the regulator for reconsideration in a judgment handed down earlier this month, but which has only now become available.

The judge said he was satisfied that Nersa's decision "is irrational and unreasonable and that it falls to be reviewed and set aside".

Nersa was also ordered to pay the costs of the application.