Unofficial Eskom
Eskom is South Africa’s electricity public utility. It publishes a surprising amount of data about the state of the national grid — hourly generation by source, outage levels, demand forecasts, weekly system adequacy reports — but it’s scattered across PowerBI embeds, CSV exports and PDFs, and much of it is badly presented or hard to find. That matters because of the ongoing energy crisis: whether the lights stay on is a question the published numbers can actually answer, if you can read them.
This site collects that data automatically — most of it refreshed every hour — keeps the full history back to 2017, and presents it as fast, readable dashboards. Everything is built from Eskom’s own published numbers, and every chart links back to the exact source files it was built from.
Status
Where the grid is right now: availability and outage dials, Eskom’s own 52-week adequacy outlook, and automatically detected incidents.
Dashboard
Live charts over the full history: generation by source, planned and unplanned outages, demand vs capacity, peaking plant use, and rooftop solar.
Long term
Monthly averages from 2017 to today, with year-over-year comparisons — the slow trends behind the daily noise.
Analysis
Written monthly recaps of what the data showed: what changed, what stood out, and what it means.
Source data
Every file we ingest from Eskom — what each contains, how fresh it is, and which charts are built from it.
Sources
- Eskom data portal
- Eskom integrated results
- Eskom presentations
- Eskom weekly system status reports
Not endorsed by or affiliated with Eskom.