{"id":274863,"date":"2018-10-02T12:44:46","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T10:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=274863"},"modified":"2018-10-02T12:44:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T10:44:46","slug":"two-thirds-of-eskom-baseload-stations-facing-supply-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/274863\/two-thirds-of-eskom-baseload-stations-facing-supply-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-thirds of Eskom baseload stations facing supply problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s Eskom is still running low on fuel at more than half of its power stations and expects to finish supply contracts in October that will replenish the stockpiles.<\/p>\n<p>There are 10 of Eskom\u2019s 15 baseload stations throughout the country that have less than three weeks of coal, Khulu Phasiwe, a spokesman for the utility, said Tuesday. &#8220;Stock levels remain low because they are not being replenished fast enough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Eskom has blamed companies that are under business rescue for not meeting their contractual output.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the affected plants &#8211; Hendrina, Komati and Majuba &#8211; are supplied by mines owned by Tegeta Exploration and Resources Ltd, a company linked to members of the politically connected Gupta family\u2019s Oakbay Investments Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Eskom is confident that new contracts will be in place within this month so that we can start the process of rebuilding the coal stock levels,&#8221; Phasiwe said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong> Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/274005\/eskom-granted-r2-9-billion-loan-to-expand-its-network\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eskom granted R2.9 billion loan to expand its network<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s Eskom is still running low on fuel at more than half of its power stations and expects to finish supply contracts in October that will replenish the stockpiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":77849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-274863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274863","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274863"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274869,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274863\/revisions\/274869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}