New Eskom board’s 75% energy availability factor mandate is impossible: DBSA chair

he chair of the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA), Professor Mark Swilling, says that the task set for the new board of Eskom to achieve an energy availability factor (EAF) of 75% is completely impossible.  Speaking at the Kgalema Motlanthe Foundation (KMF) forum on inclusive growth in the Drakensberg on Saturday, Swilling, who is also a member of the National Planning Commission (NPC), made the point that half of SA’s 90 electricity generation units were out of service due to breakdown in September, triggering stage 6 loadshedding.