Professor Anton Eberhard has posted a chart tracking available capacity at Eskom over the past 23 years.
Professor Anton Eberhard has shared Eskom’s energy availability factor chart from 2000 to 2023, which shows a rapid decline over the last four years.
In Eskom’s case, its average EAF declined from 70% in 2019 to around 54% in 2023. It is so low that there is insufficient generation power to meet demand. He said it would take at least two years to improve the EAF to 70%. He set targets of 60% EAF by 31 March 2023, 65% EAF by 31 March 2024, and 70% by 31 March 2025.about increasing Eskom’s EAF and ending load-shedding in the time frames laid out by Makwana.
Ramokgopa said Eskom is much closer to achieving its target of 70% EAF and that it has been consistent on an average of 60% for the past 14 days. “The latest Eskom week-on-week energy availability factor is nowhere near 70% and is reported officially today by Eskom as 58.31% for Week 26 of 2023,” he said.
Although there has been an increase in EAF over the last few weeks, this is not strange and happens every year.
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