No load shedding to 2029

Two large coal generation units need to be added to the grid on schedule.

A report from the National Transmission Company of South Africa (NTCSA), unbundled from Eskom in July, says the electricity system in SA is "adequate" and will remain so if Eskom's current strong plant performance is maintained.

This is a marked change from prior years when load shedding was all but guaranteed across all but the most optimistic scenarios.

It notes that Eskom's generation turnaround "through an intensified focus on recovering performance at the worst-performing stations, while sustaining performance at the stations that have shown reliable performance", has ended load shedding.

Energy availability factor From April to September, the first six months of the financial year, Eskom's energy availability factor (EAF), a measure of available capacity, was 63% versus 55%, an improvement of eight percentage points. In actual percentage terms, the improvement is 15%.