New data reveals the ugly truth about load shedding in South Africa
, and saw the country pushed to stage 6, endure a week of stage 5, and various fluctuations between stage 3 and stage 4 for an entire month.destructive load shedding and the current streak of blackouts have been for the countrySouth Africans know that load shedding is bad and likely getting worse due to an ageing power fleet and multiple technical issues, but it’s difficult to grasp the extent and how it has hit them individually.
According to independent data analyst Pieter Jordaan, while total load shedding hours is a quick way to see if load shedding, collectively, is getting worse, it doesn’t take into account the intensity of the various stages of load shedding and how individual households are affected. “For sake of convenience, the most popular accounting method to express rolling blackouts for comparison is the ‘Hours of National Load Shedding’ metric. The method tallies the number of hours that rolling blackouts were in force for a given period, normally a calendar year.
“This is due to the flawed accounting method that ignores the average stage difference between the two periods,” he said.
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