Eskom extends winning streak

“The continued suspension of load-shedding for more than four days is due to sufficient emergency generation reserves and the anticipated evening peak demand for today of 27,482MW,” it stated.Load-shedding will then be suspended between 05:00 and 16:00.This is South Africa’s longest break from rotational power cuts since September last year.

Eskom’s 18-day streak without load-shedding was broken on 6 September 2022, and there have been very few days without power cuts since then.and EskomSePush, there have been only three days without load-shedding in 2023 — 21 March, 1 October, and 15 October. Before that, Eskom had only been able to provide a Saturday and Sunday without power cuts in October last year.

Eskom generation manager Eric Shumugam recently revealed that their coal power station fleet’s weekly energy availability factor The EAF is a percentage figure indicating what proportion of Eskom’s installed nominal capacity is available to deliver power to the grid.also show that Eskom’s available capacity managed to cross last year’s trendline — a very good sign.

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