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South Africa's energy crisis (or load shedding) is an ongoing period of widespread national power outages beginning at the end of 2007. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The South African government-owned national power utility, and primary power generator, Eskom , and various parliamentarians have attributed these rolling blackouts to insufficient generation capacity.
2015 in South Africa saw a number of social and political protests and movements form. At President Jacob Zuma 's 2015 State of the Nation Address, the president was interrupted by an opposition party, the Economic Freedom Fighters , who demanded that he pay back the money used on his Nkandla homestead .
An energy crisis or energy shortage is any significant bottleneck in the supply of energy resources to an economy. In literature, it often refers to one of the energy sources used at a certain time and place, in particular, those that supply national electricity grids or those used as fuel in industrial development.
South Africa has a large energy sector, being the largest economy in Africa. The country consumed 227 TWh of electricity in 2018. [1] The vast majority of South Africa's electricity was produced from coal, with the fuel responsible for 88% of production in 2017. [2] South Africa is the 7th largest coal producer in the world. [2]
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Eskom represents South Africa in the Southern African Power Pool. The utility is the largest producer of electricity in Africa, [19] [20] is among the top seven utilities in the world in terms of generation capacity and among the top nine in terms of sales. It is the largest of South Africa's state owned enterprises.
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See also South African energy crisis. South Africa's energy supply crisis, or load shedding, is an ongoing period of widespread national blackouts of electricity supply. It began in the later months of 2007 towards the end of Thabo Mbeki's second term as president, and continues through the present.