There has been a concerning trend in the prevalence of load-shedding in recent weeks, with South Africa’s coldest winter months around the corner.
Interestingly, this showed the full days of load-shedding had actually been slightly more this year than in 2021.
If Eskom continues to implement load-shedding until Monday, 9 May 2022, at 05:00, it will add at least another five days. In the previous two years, the country barely had load-shedding during April, while 2022 had eight days.Eskom’s weekly system status report is further evidence of this, showing the energy availability factor of its generating fleet for the year was 58.64%, compared to 61.79% in 2021.
Oberholzer said this has already been reduced to 4,000MW and will be cut by a further 1,000MW in the coming weeks.
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