While Eskom's outgoing CEO André de Ruyter believes Stage 8 load shedding is the worst it will get, the utility's new board looks set to fail in one of its first targets: to achieve an energy availability factor (EAF) of 60% before the end of March.
While Eskom's outgoing CEO André de Ruyter believes Stage 8 load shedding is the worst it will get, the utility's new board looks set to fail in one of its first targets: to achieve an energy availability factor of 60% before the end of March.South Africa has been hit by prolonged Stage 6 load shedding, due to multiple unplanned breakdowns totalling over 21 000MW.
Combined with planned outages for maintenance at 3 566MW, more than half of Eskom's installed generation capacity was unavailable – a new record. South Africa is now the closest it has ever been to Stage 8 load shedding, which will mean no electricity for 12 to 14 hours a day.Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month. You can cancel anytime and if you cancel within 14 days you won't be billed.
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