{"id":298952,"date":"2019-02-12T12:54:44","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T10:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=298952"},"modified":"2019-02-12T12:54:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T10:54:44","slug":"eskom-hopes-to-stop-load-shedding-by-the-end-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/298952\/eskom-hopes-to-stop-load-shedding-by-the-end-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Eskom hopes to stop load shedding by the end of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom is working hard to ensure that South Africa will not have to face load shedding beyond the end of this week.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to\u00a0senior generation official, Andrew Etzinger, who was speaking to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/safrica-eskom-outages\/south-africas-eskom-aims-to-end-power-cuts-by-end-of-this-week-idUSL5N2072PT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a> <\/strong>on Tuesday (12 February).<\/p>\n<p>Etzinger added that at this stage Eskom does not suspect sabotage is the cause of unplanned outages at some of its power stations.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday Eskom announced that it would be reinstituting load shedding as the power utility due to a number of &#8216;system breakdowns&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>This culminated in stage 4 load shedding on Monday, with many South Africans left in the dark for hours at a time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Surprise<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While the country faced load shedding at the end of 2018, the latest round has come as a shock &#8211; even for president Cyril Ramaphosa.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the power outages, Ramaphosa said that he was &#8216;shocked&#8217; and &#8216;angered&#8217; that the power utility has reached this stage of dysfunctionality.<\/p>\n<p>He added that Eskom was a risk that needed to be addressed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have got all our energy eggs in one basket,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When the generator of energy in our country reports that there are six units (down), it means that all six eggs are broken.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/298794\/ramaphosa-shocked-and-angry-over-eskom-power-cuts-as-its-board-explains-the-move-to-stage-4-load-shedding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ramaphosa \u2018shocked and angry\u2019 over Eskom power cuts as its board explains the move to stage 4 load shedding<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom is working hard to ensure that South Africa will not have to face load shedding beyond the end of this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":288044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-298952","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\/298952","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=298952"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298992,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298952\/revisions\/298992"}],"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=298952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}