Eskom has confirmed that it will implement Stage 6 load-shedding from 16:00 to 22:00.
Stage 4 load-shedding will be implemented from 22:00 to midnight tonight and again from 05:00 until 16:00 on Wednesday.
Stage 6 load-shedding will then resume until 22:00 on Wednesday night.
Eskom has only once before had to implement Stage 6 load-shedding.
On Tuesday morning, Eskom had warned that it may have to implement Stage 6 load-shedding from this evening, following a deterioration in its generation capacity overnight.
COO Jan Oberholzer noted in a media briefing on Tuesday morning that there was a significant risk that the utility may have to implement Stage 6 load-shedding, although Eskom would do what it could to avoid that.
He added that ten generating units were lost overnight on Monday. Two of these units had been returned to service by Tuesday morning.
Eskom had planned to return a further four units
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