The president has now made that policy unambiguous and there cannot be any further debate. The ITSO is the foundation of a competitive electricity market. Without it, Eskom controls both generation and the grid, the equivalent of letting one airline also control the airports. Eskom must delegate to the NTCSA all decision-making related to the electricity market, with the NTCSA’s finances and operations ring-fenced. As the BLSA Reform Tracker showed two weeks ago, electricity reform had fallen behind schedule in several areas and in some had reversed progress.