Eskom's EAF is better, but still worse than last year

[Jan]

Counting Eskom chickens

Energy expert Anton Eberhard has cautioned against counting Eskom’s chickens before they’ve hatched.

This comes after electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa talked up Eskom’s improving energy availability factor (EAF).

 

[r00igev@@r]

 

[Sarg3_ZN]

This Minister of electric is a moron. We are producing less electricity now than we were producing in 2005 and he is talking about an improved EAF.

What a chop.

 

[Pak Fa Fui]

People conveniently forget kusile and medupi broke under Andres watch, after July 2022
We are at 60-62% EAF without Kusile, which is really good all things considered

 

[Pegging]

I think he needs another multi million Rand fact finding trip to find out how EAF is in Europe.

 

[Ragnarök]

Rumors are floating around they are burning a lot of diesel

 

[Lupus]

Rumors are floating around they are burning a lot of diesel

You do know you can check on the data portal, don't need to listen to rumours.

 

[Lupus]

People conveniently forget kusile and medupi broke under Andres watch, after July 2022
We are at 60-62% EAF without Kusile, which is really good all things considered

Are we at 60 to 62%??
This doesn't seem to indicate that. Also this is 2023 without Andre pretty low EAF. Last year with Andre higher EAF

 

[Blackhand]

Check the load factor on the OCGTs, they are being pushed harder than they’ve ever been.

The relief from constant blackouts is welcome, but it’s unsustainable.

 

[Lupus]

Check the load factor on the OCGTs, they are being pushed harder than they’ve ever been.

The relief from constant blackouts is welcome, but it’s unsustainable.

I've been tracking for awhile, they've been pushed harder, in fact they aren't being pushed as hard as they ever have been before. If they were we could be at stage 2.
The highest amount of OCGTs they've used this year is 18, with the ipps there are 26.

 

[lkpat]

Inb4 de Ruyter was the only one.

 

[wingnut771]

People conveniently forget kusile and medupi broke under Andres watch, after July 2022
We are at 60-62% EAF without Kusile, which is really good all things considered

We were at 95% before Kusile and Medupi were built.

 

[acidrain]

Don't they still have relief from environmental requirements. Not hard to crank up those plants when you don't have to worry about emmissions

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

People conveniently forget kusile and medupi broke under Andres watch, after July 2022
We are at 60-62% EAF without Kusile, which is really good all things considered

Kusile is part of the fleet. You can't just exclude it from the calculations.

 

[oros]

I just keep on laughing on the whole story

 

[ToxicBunny]

People conveniently forget kusile and medupi broke under Andres watch, after July 2022
We are at 60-62% EAF without Kusile, which is really good all things considered

You really should have a conversation with your handler around your talking points.... They are somewhat weak.

 

[Lupus]

Kusile is part of the fleet. You can't just exclude it from the calculations.

Also EAF isn't even 60% yet

 

[RedViking]

Things can only get better from now going forward, the ANC promised.

 

[Bliksis]

EAF seems to be the new buzzword

 

[yebocan]

EAF seems to be the new buzzword

Now that loadshedding is easing... -hopefully we over the worst- need to throw a bone to all the energy panel experts