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- Estimated electricity production fell by 2.3% year-on-year (y/y) in
June‚ Statistics SA said on Thursday.
The
seasonally adjusted electricity production decreased by 2.4% for the
second quarter of this year compared with the previous quarter.
There
was a month-on-month (m/m) increase of 1.5% in electricity production
in June‚ following a m/m increase of 0.5% in May.
Figures
showed that the seasonally adjusted electricity consumption decreased
by 2.5% for the second quarter of this year compared with the
previous quarter.
A
m/m increase of 1.2% was recorded for June‚ following a m/m
increase of 0.2% in May.
A
y/y decrease of 3.1% in the actual volume of electricity consumption
was recorded for June.
The
total volume of electricity delivered by Eskom to the provinces
decreased by 2.8% in June compared with June last year.
Decreases
were reported in eight of the nine provinces‚ with the largest
volume decrease recorded for KwaZulu-Natal (-212 Gigawatt-hours)‚
followed by Gauteng (-161 Gigawatt-hours) and Mpumalanga (-129
Gigawatthours).
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