{"id":305424,"date":"2019-03-15T07:58:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T05:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=305424"},"modified":"2019-03-15T07:58:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T05:58:24","slug":"eskom-to-implement-stage-2-load-shedding-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/305424\/eskom-to-implement-stage-2-load-shedding-on-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Eskom to implement stage 2 load shedding on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Due to a shortage of capacity, Eskom has announced that it will implement stage 2 rotational load shedding from 08h00 today, with power cuts likely to continue until 23h00.<\/p>\n

“Stage 2 calls for 2000MW to be rotationally load shed nationally at a given period.<\/p>\n

“Load shedding is conducted rotationally as a measure of last resort to protect the power system from a total collapse or blackout,”the power utility said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“We continue to appeal to residents and businesses to use electricity sparingly during this period. Please switch off geysers as well as all non-essential lighting and electricity appliances to assist in reducing demand.”<\/p>\n

The group encouraged people to visit the websites of their electricity providers for a list of which areas will be affected.<\/p>\n

Eskom began load shedding for the first time since mid-February this week after power trips at its Medupi and Kusile coal-fired stations.<\/p>\n

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Read: Why Eskom was always doomed to fail<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Due to a shortage of capacity, Eskom has announced that it will implement stage 2 rotational load shedding from 8:00 today, with power cuts likely to continue until 23:00.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":289108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874],"tags":[1164,26],"class_list":["post-305424","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\/305424","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=305424"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305450,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305424\/revisions\/305450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}