De Ruyter, Eskom CEO, announced about a week ago that 6 042MW planned maintenance, while another 14 471MW of capacity unavailable due to unplanned breakdowns. This comes at backdrop of a decreasing Electricity generation (production) from 2008 at 22 Gigawatt (GW) / Hour to about 20 Gigawatt (GW) / Hour, Statistics South Africa. Electricity generation is down by 2 gigawatt (GW) or 2000 megawatts (MW) or 2 000 000 kilowatts (kW) from Jan 2008.
In context (ignoring technical factors), We would need 11 000 Golf GTIs with power output of 180 KiloWatts (KW) running at the same time to get electricity production / generation of Jan 2008.
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