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2011 Electricity: A review of South Africa's electricity industry (PDF Report)
The brief reprieve offered to South Africa's electricity sector by the global slowdown served more to engender a false sense of electricity security than to facilitate the roll-out of additional power generation capacity, and Eskom has begun warning that the system is now facing new vulnerabilities. This report examines the state of South Africa's electricity industry and examines issues such as the current state of the country's electricity supply, investment in generation capacity and funding.
Published: 22 February 2011
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of abbreviations and acronyms 2
Key developments 3
State of electricity generation 4–9
Eskom’s generation investment 10–13
- Baseload projects in progress
- Peaking projects in progress
- Funding
Independent power producers 14–15
- Challenges
- Current situation
Demand-focused initiatives 16
State of electricity transmission 17–19
State of electricity distribution 20–22
- Structure
- Restructuring
- Maintenance and investment backlog
- Electrification and free basic electricity
Outlook 23
Appendix 1: Global electricity supply 24–25
Appendix 2: Project summary: Generation capacity projects currently under development by Eskom 26
Main sources 27–29
