Treasury norm: 7% to 10%
Share of electricity bought or generated that is lost before it is sold.
Source: Nelson Mandela Bay’s audited annual financial statements.
Electricity · Eastern Cape
Nelson Mandela Bay
How often is it off? Who produces our power?
26.8%
of the electricity bought or generated was lost before it was sold in 2024-25. Treasury’s norm is 7% to 10%.
Official: Audited annual financial statements · Data as of 2024-25 financial year (audited statements) · Next update expected Jan 2027 (2025-26 annual reports) · Last updated
Compare all eight metros: Electricity. An asterisk marks a figure our automated checks found inconsistent with another official figure; it is shown as reported, explained in a footnote and left out of rankings.
Electricity lost before it is sold
Official: audited annual financial statements · Data as of 2024-25 financial year (audited statements) · Next update expected Jan 2027 (2025-26 annual reports) · Last updated
Electricity a metro buys or generates but never bills: technical losses in the network, theft and faulty meters. Treasury’s norm is 7% to 10%.
What these words mean
- Distribution losses
- Water or electricity a metro buys or produces but never bills: leaks, theft, illegal connections and faulty meters.
- Treasury norm
- A target National Treasury sets for every municipality in MFMA Circular 71, so metros can be compared on the same scale.
Power outage notices
Official: Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality, alerts · Data as of see each notice’s date · Updates: checked daily · Last updated
256 power interruption notices from Nelson Mandela Bay since 1 Jan 2025; 107 named places we could match to wards.
Latest notices
- 7 Oct 2026 POWER OUTAGE UPDATE – MALABAR SUBSTATION · wards 10, 13, 14, 32
- 7 Oct 2026 POWER OUTAGE UPDATE – CAMPBELL/HARTMAN SUBSTATIONS · wards 28, 33
- 6 Oct 2026 POWER OUTAGE UPDATE – MATOMELA/BUS-SECTION
- 2 Oct 2026 POWER OUTAGE UPDATE – TAMBOVILLE SUBSTATION
- 23 Sep 2026 POWER OUTAGE UPDATE – ROSEDALE · wards 49, 50
- 23 Sep 2026 POWER OUTAGE UPDATE – LORRAINE / EPINAL ROAD · wards 8
- 22 Sep 2026 POWER OUTAGE UPDATE – LORRAINE · wards 8
- 21 Sep 2026 POWER OUTAGE UPDATE – SALT LAKE · wards 31
- 17 Sep 2026 POWER OUTAGE UPDATE – TEMBANI BUTTERFIELD
- 17 Sep 2026 PLANNED ELECTRICITY SHUTDOWN – SWARTKOPS / MATOMELA SUBSTATIONS
- 11 Sep 2026 POWER OUTAGE UPDATE – ARLINGTON / DRIFTSANDS · wards 1, 3
- 11 Sep 2026 PLANNED ELECTRICITY SHUTDOWN – SWARTKOPS / MATOMELA SUBSTATIONS
- 7 Sep 2026 POWER OUTAGE UPDATE: BLOEMENDAL
- 7 Sep 2026 POWER OUTAGE UPDATE – SYDENHAM / NORTH END · wards 5, 15
- 3 Sep 2026 REMINDER: AMENDED ELECTRICITY SUPPLY SHUTDOWN DATES – WINTERHOEK PARK 66/11 kV YARD · wards 51
Places are matched by their Stats SA Census 2011 names, longest name first, with no guessing; a name we cannot match is listed for checking and not linked to a ward. Notices before 1 Jan 2025 are not included. Where a metro publishes no notices, residents can report an outage (community reports, unverified).
Load shedding by year
6 948 hours in 2023, against 1 656 hours in 2024. It last happened on 26 Mar 2024, by the CSIR’s count.
Independent source: CSIR Energy Centre, Utility-scale power generation statistics in South Africa 2024, page 69. The CSIR estimates these from Eskom’s announcements; not an official statistic, and not used in our rankings. The report. Data as of 2024 (latest annual report) · Updates: the CSIR publishes once a year.