Records in the live release
2,222
Release 2026-11-12.2, 12 November 2026. Its fingerprint: 481857a81ce30f2b850562511b8584848249d3d74324c3a69335c2a09c6f6f61 (what that is).
Datasets·UM-001·Energy·Early access
Municipal electricity tariffs
Electricity tariffs for every licensed municipal and private distributor, from NERSA’s decisions, by customer category, with effective dates and history.
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What it holds
How far it reaches
2,222 tariffs from 175 distributors: every tariff in NERSA’s FY2026/27 decisions for every licensed distributor that has one published (175 of 176; City Power, Johannesburg’s, isn’t yet, and its gazetted 2026/27 notice wasn’t found on GPW by 12 Nov 2026), among them seven of the eight metros and the Nelson Mandela Bay domestic amendment. Eskom’s own tariffs aren’t included: Eskom’s terms don’t allow republishing its price schedule. Next: City Power when its 2026/27 decision (or, until then, its gazetted notice on GPW) is published, Nelson Mandela Bay’s original decision, and the 2027/28 decisions.
How often it changes
Annual
NERSA approves municipal tariffs from about April to June each year and they take effect on 1 July.
Where the figures come from
NERSA; Eskom. Figures from official texts (Government Gazette notices, regulator decisions): no copyright in them under the Copyright Act, s12(8)(a).
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Measured accuracy
50 of 50 sampled records checked against the source page on 12 November 2026: no errors. The sample and any failures.
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Get it
On this site
Work out a bill, free, no account.
Through the API
/v1/datasets/electricity-tariffs/records, as JSON, CSV or Excel, with filters and any past date. Fields and filters. It takes a key.
All of it at once (Parquet)
The full history, built with release 2026-11-12. A download takes a key; the fingerprints are public. How to download a snapshot.
electricity-tariffs-2026-11-12-records.parquet: 2,229 record rows (every release), 370 kB. sha2565eabbd20e31e83ab…electricity-tariffs-2026-11-12-facts.parquet: 16,423 facts with their pages, 753 kB. sha256a6a790340572da28…
For data portals
Described in DCAT in /catalog.json and on this page.
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