The Public Utility Holding Company Act passed in 1935

Dissolve Holding companies

With effect from 1 July 2002, Eskom was converted from a statutory body into a public company as Eskom Holdings Limited, in terms of the Eskom Conversion Act, 13 of 2001

In 1997 the company was the first electric utility to be granted a license by the state public utility commission to sell electricity throughout Pennsylvania as part of the state's new Customer Choice Act

It is, but you still have to pay the utility company to pump it into your home.