Tag: Energy Availability Factor

Renew #7: Power plateau

Jan 15, 2026

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Alastair Otter

in Outlier Renew, This week in charts
Keeping the lights on: Eskom’s capacity to generate power breaches 70%

Aug 8, 2024

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Gemma Ritchie

in Loadshedding, The Outlier

Eskom is finally making headway in keeping the country’s lights on. A key improvement has been an uptick in the energy availability factor (EAF), the average percentage of Eskom’s installed capacity that is in working order and ready to run if needed. In the last week of July, Eskom power stations had an EAF of…