Unofficial Eskom

Eskom, the South African electricity public utility, provides some information about the ongoing South Africa energy crisis.

However, the official data is often badly presented or hard to find. This is an unofficial site that aggregates the most useful information and makes it easier to find, nicer to look at, and generally more accessible.

Mainly this is collected in the "Unofficial Eskom Data Portal" dashboard, which you can find here.

There is also the long term dashboard that has data going back to April 2018.

General appeal: I started using Eskom's data request form in April 2023, so I have data going back to April 2018, as it only allows for the previous 5 years. If you used this form before this and you have older data, I'd love to integrate it. The oldest data dump I have is ESK2745.csv, so if you have one with a lower four digit number after ESK and are willing to share then please send me an email on gareth-at-ritza-dot-co.

But you can also find some other information around at the Dashboards, and a heatmap showing a calendar overview of loadshedding since 2015.

We aggregate data from:

• The Eskom data portal.
• The Eskom Integrated results.
• The Eskom presentations.
• The Eskom weekly system status reports.
• The Eskom media statements and Twitter feed.
• EskomSePush (ESP).

See the links in the header for more.

WIP - not everything above is actually live yet. Stay tuned.