Data Deskette

List of South African coal-fired power stations and their individual generating units.

Loadshedding stage by date from March 2014 to October 2023. This data is used to track the severity of blackouts in South Africa.

The carbon dioxide emissions released by South Africa’s power utility Eskom between 2000 and 2020 from the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory Report released annually.

List of the defaulting municipalities with overdue amounts greater than R1 million as at 31 January 2023.

The amount municipalities have owed Eskom for electricity since 2014 in billions of rands.

Electricity generated in South Africa since 2008 in gigawatt-hours

The percentage of energy capacity Eskom loses to planned maintenance and unplanned breakdowns each year

The total hours Eskom cut power supply to people in South Africa to prevent a grid collapse each year.

The number of days people in South Africa experienced energy blackouts, known as load shedding.

The estimated rooftop PV solar in South Africa since July 2022

The average percentage of generating capacity of Eskom’s power plants which is ready to run if needed since the 2006/7 financial year