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ARTICLE · 25 MAY 2023

Energy Regulation Update: Your Building Could Be Next – Act Now!

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Just recently, the Minister introduced a new rule to the game, setting a ripple of anxiety through the private building owners' community.

South AfricaEnergy and Natural Resources
Wilco Du Toit
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In line with the directives of the National Energy Act, the task of marshalling an abundance of data about energy demand, supply, and production falls onto the lap of the Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy. This prodigious task is annual, as every year the Minister must present a comprehensive assessment of energy demand and supply from the previous year while simultaneously prophesying what future needs might be.

The rather interesting Section 3 of the National Energy Act equips the Minister with an intriguing power: the ability to requisition this critical energy data from anyone, especially if such data has not been previously bestowed upon another public institution.

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