Eskom extended stage 2 load-shedding from Wednesday 5am to Friday 5am as more generating units failed and attempts to bring other units back online were delayed.
The power generator wants to preserve the remaining emergency generation reserves to prevent the problem from deteriorating, it said in a statement on Wednesday.
One generating unit failed at Medupi (Limpopo), Matla (Mpumalanga), Kendal (Mpumalanga) and Komati (Mpumalanga) power stations and the import of 240MW of power from Mozambique was interrupted.
Meanwhile, there are still problems with trying to bring three generating units at the Camden power station (Mpumalanga) and two generating units at the Tutuka power station (Mpumalanga) back online.
Three generating units came back online at the Matla, Grootvlei (Mpumalanga) and Camden power stations.
Despite this, Eskom plans to work on maintaining 5,379MW of supply while 14,827MW is not available because of unplanned breakdowns.
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