{"id":111281,"date":"2016-02-03T15:30:32","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T13:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=111281"},"modified":"2016-02-03T15:30:32","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T13:30:32","slug":"no-load-shedding-this-winter-eskom-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/111281\/no-load-shedding-this-winter-eskom-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"No load shedding this winter: Eskom CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom CEO Brian Molefe on Wednesday said there would be no load shedding for the rest of summer and going into winter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur prognosis is that there will be no load shedding for summer, autumn and going into winter,\u201d Molefe said at the quarterly state of the power system briefing.<\/p>\n<p>Eskom\u2019s unplanned maintenance decreased by 10% in the third quarter of 2015 from 17.69% for the same period of 2014. Open Cycle Gas Turbine (OCGT) usage has decreased by 66% from October 2015 to January 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Eskom chairperson Baldwin Ngubane said the commercial operation of Medupi\u2019s unit 6, which came online in August 2015 had contributed to improved performance of the power grid.<\/p>\n<p>Ngubane said that Eskom&#8217;s progress during 2015 could not have been achieved without stable leadership and that &#8220;Molefe has risen to the challenge&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fin24.com\/Economy\/Eskom\/molefe-no-load-shedding-for-rest-of-summer-winter-20160203\" target=\"_blank\">Fin24<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Eskom<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/110627\/eskom-cuts-power-in-5-municipalities-that-owe-millions\/\">Eskom cuts power in 5 municipalities that owe millions<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/109479\/eskom-hits-back-at-price-hike-opponents\/\">Eskom hits back at price hike opponents<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom CEO Brian Molefe on Wednesday said there would be no load shedding for the rest of summer and going into winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":90912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874],"tags":[25,1164],"class_list":["post-111281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-active","tag-eskom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111283,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111281\/revisions\/111283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}