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Electricity and South Africa’s economic outlook
South Africa’s energy crisis constrains economic growth but may also hold opportunities for rejuvenating investment. Load-shedding occurs when there is too little electricity supply available to meet demand. The higher the incidence of load-shedding, the greater the cost to the economy. Its impact across sectors varies and is non-linear – it is easier to mitigate load-shedding in some sectors than in others. In the first instalment of a two-part series that looks at South Africa’s energy
crisis, we focus on load-shedding and its cost to GDP.
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