{"id":288262,"date":"2018-11-30T08:10:05","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T06:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=288262"},"modified":"2018-11-30T08:10:05","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T06:10:05","slug":"eskom-plans-to-cut-2000-megawatts-from-the-grid-which-means-more-load-shedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/288262\/eskom-plans-to-cut-2000-megawatts-from-the-grid-which-means-more-load-shedding\/","title":{"rendered":"Eskom plans to cut 2,000 megawatts from the grid – which means more load-shedding"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Africa\u2019s state-owned power utility will cut 2,000 megawatts of supply from the national grid because it lost additional generating units overnight.<\/p>\n

Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd had earlier said it would cut 1,000 megawatts through rotational blackouts, known locally as load-shedding, the Johannesburg-based utility said in a statement on its website Friday.<\/p>\n

The company that\u2019s Africa\u2019s biggest power producer is struggling with declining demand, aging plants and delays in new facilities as it takes steps to emerge from multiple scandals involving graft and mismanagement. The company, which has been identified by ratings agencies as a key threat to South Africa\u2019s economy, is discussing its turnaround plan with the Department of Public Enterprises and President Cyril Ramaphosa.<\/p>\n

First-half profit plunged 89% and the company\u2019s debt burden is \u201cimpossibly high,\u201d chairman Jabu Mabuza said this week.<\/p>\n

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Read: Load shedding will hit today<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

South Africa\u2019s state-owned power utility will cut 2,000 megawatts of supply from the national grid because it lost additional generating units overnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":288044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874],"tags":[1164,26],"class_list":["post-288262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-eskom","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288262","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=288262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288264,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288262\/revisions\/288264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}