{"id":49763,"date":"2023-02-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricahorizon.com\/?guid=ed371ce8de19a66f09fbea238f871fed"},"modified":"2023-02-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T00:00:00","slug":"electricity-generation-decreased-in-december-stats-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricahorizon.com\/electricity-generation-decreased-in-december-stats-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"Electricity generation decreased in December &#8211; Stats SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) has revealed that electricity generation in the country decreased by some 8.3% year-on-year in December.<\/P><P><\/P><P>This is according to the institution\u2019s Electricity Generated and Available for Distribution release.<\/P><P><\/P><P>\u201cTotal electricity generation was 3.9% lower in 2022 compared with 2021. The 3.9% decrease in annual electricity production followed an increase of 2% in 2021, and a decrease of 5.2% in 2020.<\/P><P><\/P><P>\u201cSeasonally adjusted electricity generation decreased by 5.4% in December 2022, compared with November 2022. This followed month-on-month changes of 1.2% in November 2022 and 2.4% in October 2022.<\/P><P><\/P><P>&#8220;Seasonally adjusted electricity generation decreased by 1.9% in the fourth quarter of 2022, compared with the third quarter of 2022,\u201d the institution said.<\/P><P><\/P><P>Electricity consumption also waned by some 7.6% year-on-year in December last year.<\/P><P><\/P><P>\u201cTotal electricity distribution was 2.8% lower in 2022 compared with 2021. The 2.8% decrease in annual electricity distribution followed an increase of 2.3% in 2021 and a decrease of 5.0% in 2020.<\/P><P><\/P><P>\u201cSeasonally adjusted electricity distribution [consumption] decreased by 4.0% month-on-month in December 2022, following month-on-month changes of 0.1% in November 2022 and 2.9% in October 2022. Seasonally adjusted electricity distribution decreased by 2.0% in the fourth quarter of 2022, compared with the third quarter of 2022,\u201d Stats SA said.<\/P><P><\/P><P><\/P><P>Source: South African Government News Agency<\/P><P><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) has revealed that electricity generation in the country decreased by some 8.3% year-on-year in December.This is according to the institution\u2019s Electricity Generated and Available for Distribution release.\u201cTotal electr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Electricity generation decreased in December - Stats SA - South Africa Horizon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricahorizon.com\/electricity-generation-decreased-in-december-stats-sa\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Electricity generation decreased in December - Stats SA - South Africa Horizon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) has revealed that electricity generation in the country decreased by some 8.3% year-on-year in December.This is according to the institution\u2019s Electricity Generated and Available for Distribution release.\u201cTotal electr...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/southafricahorizon.com\/electricity-generation-decreased-in-december-stats-sa\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Africa Horizon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-02-02T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"shadmin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"shadmin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricahorizon.com\/electricity-generation-decreased-in-december-stats-sa\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricahorizon.com\/electricity-generation-decreased-in-december-stats-sa\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"shadmin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricahorizon.com\/#\/schema\/person\/fdceae9c738422cfffedeec2ab0f5fdd\"},\"headline\":\"Electricity generation decreased in December &#8211; 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