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            <description><![CDATA[Eskom’s Energy Availability Factor (EAF), the percentage of time its plants are available to generate electricity, tells a sobering story. From a healthy 87.5% in 2006/07, availability dropped steadily over the following decade and a half, bottoming out at 54.56% in 2023/24, a period marked by the 329 days of loadshedding in South Africa and ageing infrastructure under severe strain.]]></description>
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