Power utility Eskom says it will increase load shedding to stage 4 on Monday evening (16 May). This follows the loss of further generating units.
We will try our best to avoid that but unfortunately, that risk does exist,” he said. - City of Johannesburg We have to make sure that we don’t deplete our emergencies. So we have to look at our emergencies that we don’t run out of diesel. Losses due to breakdowns are at 17,255MW, it said. “While this unit has since returned to service, it will slowly load up to capacity during the night.”