. There is plenty of room for improvement as far as information dissemination strategies employed by Nersa are concerned. More must be done to ensure that advertisements calling for public comments on tariff applications reach as many people as possible, especially those outside of metropolitan areas and the poor. . There remains a persistent perception that what Eskom requests in tariff increment is always granted by the regulator without vigorous and well informed enquiry. . The draft Regulation on LP Gas was published for public comments in 2007, and awaits promulgation. See instruction to the Department of Energy under 4.1 . The Committee still reserves the right to hear the public views on tariff hikes before or after applications are brought to the regulator. The Committee can do this without interfering with the work or mandate of the regulator. . The Committee would consider hosting a lecture, or a series of these, on transformative practices in the electricity industry, for the benefit of Members.