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Eskom ’s outlook on generation shortfalls in the next year has turned a corner. The power utility’s latest forecast shows substantial improvements from the start of the year, indicating a big decline in the amount of load-shedding that will be necessary in the next 52 weeks.to have a shortfall of more than 2,001MW under both its planned and likely risk scenarios throughout the year.

While there are still many weeks with red in the latest table, there are now three weeks in 2024 where it anticipates it will be able to meet demand under the planned risk scenario. As a result, the planned risk scenarios dropped from 18,200MW to 16,200MW, and the likely risk scenario from 20,200MW to 18,200MW.Load-shedding has not been implemented for over a month and a half. Eskom attributed this achievement to a sustained improvement in generation performance.

Eskom said this was better than the winter forecast for this year, which anticipated unplanned outages to range from 14,000MW to 15,500MW.

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