Alternative energy company calls for better regulations

JOHANNESBURG - Eskom's failure to meet South Africa's energy demands has forced businesses and households to consider alternative sources.

A family-run energy company, Rural Maintenance (Pty) Ltd has been assisting municipalities, communities and businesses in their bid to achieve energy security.

CEO Chris Bosch says government regulations remain a major hurdle.

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"[The] government needs to actually really mean it when they say that private sector and communities need to be able to help themselves, currently we hear it, but we don't see it on the ground."

"Actually, if you think about it in the Constitution, Section 151 of the Constitution allows for a municipality to actually to have wide discretionary powers," he said.

"So if the municipality is allowed and the councillors in the municipalities look after their communities, then they will make the right call, and actually we have enough of the legislation for business and communities to assist their communities to actually become load-shedding free in a very short period of time."