South Africa has reached 441 consecutive days without load shedding, as Eskom reports continued improvements in generation performance, reduced reliance on diesel and lower levels of unplanned outages. Despite the improvement in the national power system and the end of load shedding, Eskom continues to implement load reduction in some areas affected by illegal connections, meter tampering, infrastructure damage and overloading. The utility’s Load Reduction Eradication Programme has removed approximately 1.196 million customers from load reduction schedules — about 70.8% of the 1.69 million customers originally affected. Six of South Africa’s nine provinces have been completely removed from load reduction, while progress continues in the Eastern Cape, Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal. A total of 565 feeders had been removed from load reduction, representing approximately 58% of the programme’s 971-feeder target.