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Minister for Electricity in the Presidency, Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, said during his Monday briefing in Tshwane that trends are showing that there are signs of improvement and progress at Eskom although South Africa is still in various stages of load shedding.
“It is important that in the midst of momentary setbacks, when you go to Stage 4 and occasionally go to Stage 6 load shedding, we don’t lose sight of essentially what is the trendline.
“The best measure of this trendline is illustrated in the Unplanned Capacity Loss Factor (UCLF), which is a combination of the reliability of the units and partial load losses. When we entered May 2023… the amount of megawatts that were lost as a result of [UCLF] was averaging 17 369 MW.
“The trendline has been going down and the best performance… was during the month of December, where we had about 13 473MW.
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