{"id":288296,"date":"2018-11-30T09:01:59","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T07:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=288296"},"modified":"2018-11-30T09:01:59","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T07:01:59","slug":"eskom-starts-stage-2-load-shedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/288296\/eskom-starts-stage-2-load-shedding\/","title":{"rendered":"Eskom starts stage 2 load shedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Power utility Eskom has announced that stage two load shedding will be in effect on Friday (30 November) between 09h00 and 22h00 as a result of loss of additional units overnight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Stage 2 calls for 2,000MW to rotationally load shed nationally at a given period. Loadshedding is conducted rotationally as a measure of last resort to protect the power system from a total collapse or blackout,&#8221; Eskom said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We encourage residents and businesses to please use electricity sparingly to ease the demand of electricity. Please switch off geysers during the day as well as all non-essential lighting and electricity appliances to assist in reducing demand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Customers are advised to keep checking their load shedding schedules on the Eskom or municipal website, and plan on the assumption that load shedding will take place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The group said it would provide updates on the status of the power system through various media platforms.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong> Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/287870\/eskom-technically-bankrupt-as-debt-hits-r400-billion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eskom \u2018technically bankrupt\u2019 as debt hits R400 billion<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power utility Eskom has announced that stage two load shedding will be in effect on Friday (30 November) between 09h00 and 22h00 as a result of loss of additional units overnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":90912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-288296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288296","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288298,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288296\/revisions\/288298"}],"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=288296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}