Real-time outage intelligence for South African businesses

Use ESP’s real-time electricity, water, internet and loadshedding signals to understand what is down, where it is happening, and when customers are affected.

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Loadshedding schedules

Trusted SA schedule coverage

Electricity, water & internet reports

Real-time community reports

Area-level outage intelligence

For internal business use

Internal operations dashboard

Bryanston electricity signalElevated outage activity

Power off reportsPower restored reports

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Elevated electricity signal detected from recent local reports.

ESP community reports can surface local outage activity before official updates.

Real-time local signal

Community reports from ESP users across South Africa.

Area-level status

Understand electricity, water and internet issues by area.

Built for business use

Use the API for support, operations and analytics.

Know when an area is down before your support queue fills up

When power, water or internet fails in an area, customers start phoning support and logging tickets before official information is available. ESP’s Business API gives your team a real-time local signal from the ESP community.

AreaBryanston

Electricity342 off · 89 on

Internet18 down · 4 back

Water12 off · 3 on

Includes ESP’s trusted loadshedding schedules

ESP started with loadshedding. The Business API includes up-to-date loadshedding and load reduction schedules across South Africa, plus lookup tools for matching customers and sites to the right local schedule.

National, municipal and direct Eskom schedules
Area lookup for schedule matching
GPS coordinate lookup
Updated schedule tracking

Built for teams that need local outage context

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ISPs and fibre networks

Check whether internet complaints are linked to local electricity outages.

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Backup power and solar companies

Identify areas with active or repeated electricity issues.

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Retail and operations teams

Monitor service issues around stores, depots and branches.

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Insurers and data teams

Use local outage context for analytics, claims and risk modelling.

What the Business API gives you

✓ Current area health state

✓ Recent electricity, water and internet reports

✓ Report counts over time

✓ Current report volume by local area

✓ Recent community issue summaries, where available

✓ Loadshedding, load reduction and area lookup endpoints

✓ Business API access with documentation

Real API response example

Example endpoint: /business/3.1/reports · real response

{
  "health": {
    "state": "CRITICAL"
  },
  "metrics": {
    "current_reports": 342,
    "window_minutes": 30
  },
  "reports": [
    {
      "electricity": {
        "off": 342,
        "on": 89
      },
      "start": "2026-06-24T16:00:00+02:00"
    }
  ],
  "chats": [
    {
      "body": "Power is off in Bryanston.",
      "created": "2026-06-23T16:34:39+02:00"
    }
  ]
}

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Fields vary by endpoint, category and available area activity. See the API documentation for implementation details.

Usage and access

Business internal use

Standard ESP Business API access is for dashboards, support tooling, operations, monitoring and internal analytics.

Customer-facing or partner use

Public dashboards, customer alerts, redistribution, resale or products showing ESP data to customers require written commercial approval.

Personal / hobby use

Personal, non-commercial projects can use the free ESP API.

FAQ

Start using ESP Business API data in your business systems

Buy Business API access and start integrating ESP’s area-level outage, loadshedding, water and internet signals into dashboards, support tools, operations and analytics.