Since April, the EAF has increased to 63% from 55% over the same period in 2023.
Since the start of Eskom’s financial year on 1 April, there has not been a single hour of load shedding. In fact, South Africa’s reprieve from rotational power cuts started on 26 March, meaning that by 5am on Thursday, there will have been 142 days of constant power supply.
In recent weeks, it has had an average of 33 000MW of available capacity compared to its “likely scenario” in its winter forecast of closer to 28 000MW.This would’ve seen 50 days of load shedding with a ‘peak’ of Stage 2 between April and August. Despite winter being nearly over, it reiterates that its forecast remains “in force”.
Until the first week of August, it has spent just R3.5 billion on diesel for its open cycle gas turbines , nearly a full R10 billion less than the same period last year.The load factor for the OCGTs for the financial year thus far is hovering around 5%, compared to an astonishing four times as much over the same period.
This has seen unplanned breakdowns reduce to the 10 500MW level . Its energy availability factor in July was 67.41% – an impressive performance, considering in the same month last year, it was more than 10 percentage points lower.In the first week of August, nine of its coal stations achieved an EAF of above 60% with five of these exceeding 70%. Tutuka, one of its ‘most broken’ coal power stations, has seen its performance improve dramatically.
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