Eskom Distribution Case Study Page 1 The Challenge Eskom, the national power transmission company in South Africa, faces a number of significant challenges ahead. There is a national stated intent (included in the Constitution) to provide ‘universal access’ to electricity by 2012 – at present a large proportion of the rural community does not have access to electricity. A further complexity to this requirement is the strong desire (from national government level) to have a uniform rate for the supply of electricity regardless of where the customer is located. Very much in the public eye is the challenge for South Africa

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