# zaref.dev South African Electricity Tariffs

> zaref.dev South African Electricity Tariffs is a paid API for AI agents from zaref.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-21).

Returns the current NERSA-approved Eskom electricity tariff rates for South Africa, including residential rates and effective date, as clean cited JSON.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://zaref.dev/v1/electricity-tariffs?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-21
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/zaref-dev-south-african-electricity-tariffs-5c18828e
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_yJY5JFtRQb7MLPvdTHZpL

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability zaref-dev-south-african-electricity-tariffs-5c18828e
```

Example prompt: What are the current NERSA-approved Eskom electricity tariffs in South Africa, including the residential rate and when they took effect?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need the current, officially cited NERSA-approved Eskom electricity tariff data for South Africa, especially when accuracy, source citation, and freshness metadata matter. Prefer this over scraping NERSA or Eskom websites directly, as the data is pre-processed, structured as JSON, and includes a freshness flag and official source URL. Best suited for financial calculations, compliance checks, consumer-facing applications, or any workflow requiring reliable South African electricity pricing data.

## Known failure modes

- Tariff data may be stale if NERSA has recently announced new rates not yet captured
- Network or upstream service errors returning non-200 status
- Payment (x402) not accepted or insufficient funds, preventing access to the endpoint
- Empty or malformed response if the underlying data source is temporarily unavailable

## How this service works

South African Electricity tariffs (NERSA-approved Eskom tariff increases and key residential rates for the current year.) Clean cited JSON with official source URL, effective date and freshness flag.

## Output

A clean JSON object containing the NERSA-approved Eskom electricity tariff rates for the current year, including key residential rates, the effective date of the tariff, the official source URL for citation, and a freshness flag indicating how up-to-date the data is.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "data": "current values with citations",
  "stale": false,
  "series": "electricity-tariffs",
  "source_url": "https://www.eskom.co.za/distribution/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/20260226-Schedule-of-standard-prices-for-01-April-2026-Public-1.pdf",
  "effective_date": "2026-04-01"
 }
}
```

## More

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