Bleak winter: Eskom says Stage 6 unlikely, but analyst warns to expect worse

The outlook for load shedding this winter is bleak but Eskom believes it is very likely it will not be as intense as it has been in the first three months of this year and will not reach Stage 6. 

But this projection is not shared by independent analyst Clyde Mallinson, who has modelled the expected load shedding outlook based on historical winter load profile data and foresees much higher stages of load shedding, depending on how much diesel is burned.