{"id":305222,"date":"2019-03-14T10:40:16","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T08:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=305222"},"modified":"2019-03-14T14:56:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T12:56:32","slug":"stage-1-load-shedding-will-hit-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/305222\/stage-1-load-shedding-will-hit-on-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Load shedding moved up to stage 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> Eskom has announced that it will move to stage 2 load shedding from 15h00 until 23h00 today.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Original:<\/strong> Eskom has announced that stage 1 load shedding will be implemented from 11h00 until 23h00.<\/p>\n<p>This is due to plant breakdowns, resulting in an imbalance between supply and demand, it said.<\/p>\n<p>Stage 1 calls for 1000MW to be rotationally loadshed nationally at a given period.<\/p>\n<p>Loadshedding is conducted rotationally as a measure of last resort to protect the power system from a total collapse or blackout.<\/p>\n<p>The group encouraged people to visit the websites of their electricity providers for a list of which areas will be affected.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the first time in a few weeks that Eskom has had to implement rolling blackouts, with the last time being in mid February.<\/p>\n<p>There has been a lingering threat of load shedding, however, with the company warning that the power system has been under constant pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Customers are urged switch off all non-essential appliances in an effort to reduce pressure on the national grid.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/305168\/why-eskom-was-always-doomed-to-fail\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Why Eskom was always doomed to fail<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom has announced that stage 1 load shedding will be implemented from 11h00 until 23h00.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":301154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874],"tags":[1164,26],"class_list":["post-305222","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\/305222","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=305222"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305376,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305222\/revisions\/305376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}