The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) have published its annual statistics on power generation in South Africa for 2021, providing a breakdown of load shedding statistics over the period.
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research has published its annual statistics on power generation in South Africa for 2021, providing a breakdown of load shedding over the period.
This is a 40% increase compared to the upper limit last in 2020 . The number of hours spent load shedding has also seen an increase, jumping to 1,169 hours in 2021 compared to 859 in 2020. More concerning than the country’s load shedding statistics is Eskom’s declining Energy Availability Factor . This is is the percentage of maximum energy generation that the utility is capable of supplying to the electrical grid, limited only by planned and unplanned outages.
There were 1,054 gigawatt hours cut through the first fourth months of the year to April versus 2,521 GWh in the entire year earlier.