Eskom’s refusal to provide energy-focused EE Publishers, with information about its generation capacity and electricity demand is being contested in the High Court in Pretoria. The information requested in June through an application under the Promotion of Access to Information Act (Paia) include data on the week-on-week energy availability factor, demand, net energy sent out and outage statistics, which EE Publishers argues is needed to analyse Eskom’s performance. In particular the publisher wants the generation medium-term adequacy report for each week from April 25 to June 19. "Eskom’s failure to act transparently in providing such data prevents independent analysts and researchers from reviewing and understanding generation performance trends in SA, and enables Eskom to hide inefficiencies and present one-sided and misleading information to the public," the publisher’s MD, Chris Yelland, said. "Eskom has stonewalled EEPublishers, and refused to provide the information, without ...
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