The latest breakdowns have led to a further 2,400MW loss in generating capacity, which would typically equate to two more stages of load-shedding.
, which had necessitated stage 4 load-shedding until 05:00 on Sunday morning and stage 3 until 05:00 on Monday morning.
As of Saturday morning, the utility had 16,597MW of capacity unavailable due to breakdowns, while another 7,210MW was offline for planned maintenance. “The emergency generation reserves have been depleted by extensive utilisation to limit the amount of load-shedding over the past two weeks.”
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