Eskom's production has fallen by 8.8% in the last 10 years.
A new Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) report offers a sobering picture of declining electricity system production and demand between 2010 and 2020 – a trend that was amplified further during Covid-hit 2020, when demand slumped by a sharp 5.1%, or 11.8 TWh, to a decade low level of 227 TWh.
In 2020, loadshedding occurred for 859 hours of the year (9.8%)
https://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/new-report-highlights-decade-of-falling-electricity-production-in-south-africa-2021-03-11
