	Cumulative hours of loadshedding scheduled by South African power utility Eskom by month from January 2014
Category	Energy
Description	The cumulative monthly hours of loadshedding scheduled by South African power utility Eskom. This data is based on Eskom's loadshedding schedules since 2014. Hours are calculated from the time a stage of loadshedding of any stage is scheduled to start until the time it is scheduled to ends. Loadshedding stages are an indicator that the power utility is unable to meet electricity demand.
Source	Eskom Se Push and The Outlier's own research
Data	13 columns, 12 rows
Headers	Month 2014_hours 2015_hours 2016_hours 2017_hours 2018_hours 2019_hours 2020_hours 2021_hours 2022_hours 2023_hours 2024_hours 2025_hours
	Meta and variable descriptions

Data

Month	2014_hours	2015_hours	2018_hours	2019_hours	2020_hours	2021_hours	2022_hours	2023_hours	2024_hours	2025_hours
Jan	0	32	0	0	104	121	0	744	574	7
Feb	0	183	0	66	446	187	114	1405	1211	37
Mar	6	211	0	276	573	394	261	2072	1640
Apr	6	342	0	276	573	402	458	2762	1640
May	6	563	0	276	573	456	673	3499	1640
Jun	15	692	14	276	573	641	859	3876	1640
Jul	15	813	14	276	662	646	1270	4482	1640
Aug	15	842	14	276	722	646	1345	5172	1640
Sep	15	844	14	276	814	646	1915	5755	1640
Oct	15	844	14	332	814	908	2436	6018	1640

Cumulative hours of loadshedding scheduled by South African power utility Eskom by month from January 2014