We analysed Eskom’s planned outages, unplanned breakdowns, and energy availability factors over the last four years and compared them with 2024. Here is what the numbers reveal about the electricity minister’s claims of performance improvements.
Eskom conducted more planned maintenance on its power stations in 2024 than in the previous four years, while unplanned breakdowns have also started to improve.
PCLF — or planned outage factor — refers to what portion of the fleet has been taken offline as part of controlled and scheduled maintenance work. He explained that this would lead to “short-term pain” with reduced generation availability for some time. However, the goal is to enable long-term improvements in the system.
However, because Eskom only started publishing its system status outlook in 2021, the year-to-date numbers for 2020 were not available.
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