Eskom promises more maintenance to improve plant performance

welcomed President Cyril Ramaphosa’s efforts to liberalise the electricity sector in South Africa, saying the move will give the utility the space to increase maintenance of its ageing and unreliable coal-fired generation fleet.

“The measures announced by the president will allow Eskom to intensify its maintenance efforts to drive improvements in the EAF.” The EAF, which in essence shows the productivity of Eskom generation plant, has been in decline for years, contributing to the growing intensity of load shedding. Its coal fleet had an EAF in 2018 of 71.9%. This fell to 66.9% in 2019; 65% in 2020; and 61.8% in 2021. There has been little improvement in 2022, a year that’s on track for the worst load shedding in South Africa’s history.to the energy sector, including the scrapping of licensing for private power generators over 100MW in size.

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