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South Africa: Eskom’s power cuts exceed more than 90% of last year’s in H1CY22

Jul 5, 2022

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Rituparna Ghosh

in Non Coking

South African utility Eskom has cut 2,276 Gwh of power generation during Jan-Jun’22 due to labour strikes, facility maintenance and creaking thermal coal capacity. This is more than 90% of what it had cut in the entire 2021. Eskom has a generation capacity of about 45 GW, of which 3.38 GW is on planned maintenance,…