Eskom conducted more planned maintenance on its power stations in 2024 than in the previous four years, while unplanned breakdowns have also started to improve.
PCLF — or planned outage factor — refers to what portion of the fleet has been taken offline as part of controlled and scheduled maintenance work. He explained that this would lead to “short-term pain” with reduced generation availability for some time. However, the goal is to enable long-term improvements in the system.
However, because Eskom only started publishing its system status outlook in 2021, the year-to-date numbers for 2020 were not available.
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