Home | Site map     Back           Group five-year review 1 2               Unit  2008  (12 months) 2007  (12 months) 2006  (12 months) 20051  (15 months) 2003  (12 months) Continuity of supply             Electricity sold – local GWh  210 458  204 531  195 194    240 951  186 807  Electricity sold – international GWh  13 908  13 589  13 122    16 008  10 173  Total electricity sold GWh  224 366  218 120  207 921    256 453  196 980  Coal burnt in power stations Mt  125,30  119,10  112,10    136,40  104,40  Energy availability factor %  84,85  87,50  87,40    89,50  87,50  Peak demand on integrated system MW  36 513  34 529  33 461    34 195  31 928  Peak demand on integrated system including load reductions MW  37 158  35 441  33 461    34 195  31 928  Unplanned automatic grid separations trips per unit  2,80  1,76  1,55    1,33  1,78  Demand-side management savings MW  650,4  169,80  72,30    85,40  0,50  Specific water consumption by power stations4 L/kWh sent out   1,32  1,35  1,32    1,27  1,29  Relative particulate emissions kg/MWh sent out   0,21  0,20   0,21    0,26  0,28  Carbon dioxide emissions5 Mt  223,57  208,90  203,70    247,00  190,10  Radiation release milliSieverts (mSv)   0,0041  0,0034  0,0049    0,0079  0,0123  Lost time incident rate index  0,34  0,35   0,40    0,456 0,37  Employee fatalities number  17  8  10    19  5  Contractor fatalities number  12  18  13    17  6  Public fatalities number  42  41  34    40  273  Capacity expansion             Generation capacity installed and commissioned MW  1 061  1 351  170    –  –  Transmission lines installed km  480  430  237    397  262  Transmission transformer capacity installed MVA  1 355  1 000  1 090    5 280  –  Distribution lines installed km  7 319  6 984  5 944    10 892  11 070  Distribution transformer capacity installed MVA  3 412  2 967  1 866    2 249  2 304  Developmental initiatives             Black economic empowerment Rm  25 447  16 557  11 681    10 3343  6 8613  Electrification number  of homes  connected  168 538  152 125  135 903    222 314  175 396   Corporate social investment10 Rm  69,80  74,70  83,6011 159,80  158,60   Definitions of ratios             Average total cost of electricity sold: Operating expenditure and net finance cost (including fair value adjustment on financial instruments) divided by external sales. Debt:equity including long-term provisions: net financial liabilities/assets plus non-current portion of retirement benefit obligation, decommissioning and nuclear waste management and closure, pollution and rehabilitation provisions divided by total equity. (Financial liabilities exclude lease, trade and other payables. Financial assets: exclude lease, trade and other receivables). Debt:equity: net financial liabilities/assets divided by total equity. EBITDA interest coverage: net operating income adjusted for interest income and depreciation divided by the financial interest. Funds from operations/average total debt: cash flows from operating activities divided by the average total financial liabilities. Funds from operations/capex: cash flows from operating activities divided by cash used in investment activities adjusted for capitalised interest. Funds from operations/net interest coverage: cash flows from operating activities divided by interest expenditure adjusted for capitalised interest. Interest cover: net operating income divided by net interest income and expenditure including the fair value gain or loss. Liquidity: current assets divided by current liabilities. Net pre-tax interest coverage: net profit before tax adjusted by interest expenditure divided by the finance cost adjusted for capitalised interest. Return on average equity: net profit divided by average equity. Return on total assets: net operating income7 expressed as a percentage of total assets8. Solvency: total assets divided by total liabilities. Total operating expenditure/revenue: total operating expenditure9 divided by revenue after making an adjustment for depreciation. Value created per employee: value created divided by number of employees as per value added statement. 1 Represents, unless indicated otherwise, the 15-month period from 1 January 2004 to 31 March 2005. 2 Average price of electricity sold based on total sales. 3 Represents Eskom Holdings information only. 4 Volume of water consumed per unit of generated power sent out, excluding rain and mine water used. 5 Calculated figures based on coal characteristics and the power station design parameters. Excludes gas turbines and return-to-service power stations. 6 Calculated for the period 1 April 2004 to 31 March 2005. 7 Net operating income is revenue less operating expenditure. 8 Total assets are reduced by financial market assets and interest receivable, since Eskom’s funding is managed in a single pool of financial market assets and liabilities. 9 Total operating expenditure is before net finance cost, fair value (loss)/gain and taxation. 10 Expenditure by the Eskom Development Foundation only. 11 Amounts spent on the Eskom public scholarship programme are now reported under skills development.             1 2   Back to top