Energy tracker
April 2025
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Electricity supply improved in 2024, with reduced load-shedding (LS) in Q1 and no LS for the rest of the year. The causes are weaker demand for energy combined with improved generative capacity from returning units to the grid and ramping up planned maintenance. Electricity supply is still vulnerable, despite the improvement in Eskom’s EAF. Generation capacity is still constrained. A more dramatic shift towards renewable energy (RE) is required to reduce the pressure on the national grid. Ongoing energy insecurity is evident in the reliance on the compensatory load, still significant levels of unplanned outages and the return of LS in Q12025 Expediting progress on the plethora of energy plans is required to bring about energy security.
South Africa’s Energy Prospects
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