ENERGY
For years, South African businesses learned electricity through crisis. The vocabulary was familiar: load shedding, diesel, generators, inverters, batteries, solar panels, and production losses. The generator became a kind of noisy national business mascot.
That phase has not disappeared. Businesses still need backup power, and grid reliability remains a live concern. But the end of the worst load-shedding periods has shifted attention to cost, predictability, and longterm resilience.
“ The cost of inaction is quantifiable, and it compounds.”
Dan Ginsberg, Discovery Green’ s Head of Actuarial and R & D, says South Africa experienced 335 days of load shedding in 2023, with 16.6 million MWh shed from the grid. In 2024, that dropped to 83 days, and by April 2026, the country had been load-shedding-free for more than 341 consecutive days.
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