Energy – 20 May 2024
ENERGY
- Eskom has performed a remarkable turnaround about its Energy Availability Factor (EAF), crossing 65% during last week. This is feedback from Chris Yelland, energy analyst and managing director of EE Business Intelligence, who outlined Eskom’s impressive EAF improvement. The utility has managed to stave off load-shedding for over 50 days, beginning at the end of March. Yelland said the utility has managed to keep its unplanned breakdowns consistently five percentage points lower than that for the first 17 weeks of 2024. With units returning to service as Eskom winds down its maintenance, the utility’s week-on-week EAF has shot up to over 65%, higher than the corresponding weeks in 2021, 2022, and 2023. (Source)
