Cost of load-shedding to South African economy drops by 83%

[Daniel Puchert]

Good news about load-shedding

The cost of power cuts to South Africa’s economy plunged 83% last year as supply stabilized, a Council for Scientific and Industrial Research report showed.

The economy forfeited 481 billion rand in output due to the outages, known locally as loadshedding, down from as much as 2.9 trillion rand in 2023 when there were record blackouts, according to the report released Monday.

 

[Pythonista]

There is NO good news on load-shedding. PERIOD !!!!

 

[porchrat]

There is NO good news on load-shedding. PERIOD !!!!

So it lowering in frequency isn't good news?

 

[Bad Ballie]

Load shedding is just another government failure, there is no sugar coating it.

 

[porchrat]

Load shedding is just another government failure, there is no sugar coating it.

I'd argue it's the single worst failure of the SA government to date.

 

[system32]

The worst bad news was:

• 12.7% R/kWh increase in 2025
• 5.36% R/kWh increase in 2026
• 6.19% R/kWh increase in 2027

(24.25%) increase granted by Nersa making electricity unaffordable.
This is on top of the unregulated fixed fee increases.

 

[RaptorSA]

Yeah, we're doing just....





At this rate we'll be swimming in Soylent Green in no time.
Yummy.

 

[Cius]

Great! Will pass the news on to my area which has had no power for 2 and a half days now and counting.

 

[RaptorSA]

Great! Will pass the news on to my area which has had no power for 2 and a half days now and counting.

We just joined your club this morning... as in, the part of Joburg that actually pays to sustain Joburg went dark.
Aren't we just one happy "good news" family?!?

 

[KleinBoontjie]

You're jinxing it....just saying.....touch that piece of wood, quick

 

[ISP cash cow]

Great! Will pass the news on to my area which has had no power for 2 and a half days now and counting.

We must be in the same area, no power for us since sunday

 

[Cius]

We must be in the same area, no power for us since sunday

Sonneglans/Boskruin area?

 

[Neuk_]

Good news about load-shedding

The cost of power cuts to South Africa’s economy plunged 83% last year as supply stabilized, a Council for Scientific and Industrial Research report showed.

The economy forfeited 481 billion rand in output due to the outages, known locally as loadshedding, down from as much as 2.9 trillion rand in 2023 when there were record blackouts, according to the report released Monday.

Have they factored in the cost of Eskom burning diesel and it's cost to the 'economy'?

 

[ISP cash cow]

Sonneglans/Boskruin area?

Randpark ridge

 

[Lupus]

Have they factored in the cost of Eskom burning diesel and it's cost to the 'economy'?

Considering that the diesel burning over the 2023 to 2024 FYI was 26 billion, one does seem a bit higher than the other, currently it's at just over 15 billion

 

[Swa]

Stop load shedding and fix the network and you don't need that VAT increase.

 

[Flanders]

Cost of load-shedding to South African economy drops by 83%​

Reads like satire. Talk about an attempt at coating some doo-doo with sprinkes...

I was doing some calcs on the new leccy rates. Scary stuff before any VAT increase.

 

[ThinkCentre]

All people in South Africa must invest in some alternative power source to replace ESKOM because it could just get worse again!! If not loadshedding, then the cost of it!

 

[xcaliber]

Yet we still have smelters operating in Richards bay

 

[Neuk_]

Yet we still have smelters operating in Richards bay

Yes, like glass furnaces, you do not want them switching off unless you have planned to switch them off.