Eskom’s weekly system status report paints a bleak picture for the year ahead.
Eskom has released its weekly system status report, and its outlook for the year ahead forecasts continuous and severe load-shedding.
Green indicates adequate capacity to meet South Africa’s electricity demand and maintain its operating reserve. Red is the worst-case scenario accounted for by the outlook and indicates Eskom expects to be over 2,000MW short to meet demand and maintain its reserve.Therefore, based on its current assumptions, it expects to implement near-continuous power cuts at stage 2 or higher for the following year.The “planned” risk scenario adds these two numbers together and assumes 18,200MW is unavailable. The “likely” risk scenario adds 2,000MW of outages to this number.
The Eskom board appointed in October 2022 was tasked with increasing Eskom’s EAF to 70% by 31 March 2025. Even if the utility doesn’t meet these goals, it would be a victory if there has been substantial improvement in EAF.
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