JOHANNESBURG – Eskom says it is moving to ensure the country never suffers bouts of rolling blackouts ever again.
It says the generation fleet has seen significant improvement.
This as the power utility has promised that there will be no load shedding this winter.
It said it has seen steady improvement in power plant availability and ability to maintain supply to meet the demand throughout the last three key winter periods.
“Yes, we did have some glitches in the 2024/25 financial year, but we’ve moved from the days where we only had only 9% availability in 2024 to 96% availability in 2025. In the last financial year that ended in March, we only had 26 hours of load shedding,” Dan Marokane, Eskom CEO said.
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Marokane said Eskom has been working hard to improve the ability of the plants through maintenance.
“We are comfortable that having gone through the summer maintenance again with no load shedding that our plants availability will carry us throughout the winter. Our long-term plan is to make sure that the issue of load shedding does not revisit us a country,” he added.
He reiterated that under all their planning scenarios, of unplanned load shedding being between 12, 000 and 14, 000 megawatts, the country will experience no load shedding this winter.
“We are comfortable that we have enough capacity to pull us through this winter,” Marokane added.