{"id":360678,"date":"2019-12-09T07:23:58","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T05:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=360678"},"modified":"2019-12-09T07:23:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T05:23:58","slug":"eskom-load-shedding-to-continue-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/360678\/eskom-load-shedding-to-continue-on-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Eskom load shedding to continue on Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom has said that it will implement stage 2 load-shedding until 23h00 on Monday 9 December.<\/p>\n<p>The power utility added that the probability of load-shedding would remain high throughout the coming week due to the shortage of capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Eskom said that it had lost additional power generation units during the course of the day on Sunday 8 December 2019, which resulted in unplanned breakdowns increasing to 12,000MW by 19h00.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/POWERALERT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#POWERALERT<\/a> 2<\/p>\n<p>Date: 08 December 2019<\/p>\n<p>Stage 2 rotational loadshedding will continue overnight and all day on Monday until 23:00 and the risk of loadshedding remains high for the week.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/News24?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@News24<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IOL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IOL<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimesLIVE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TimesLIVE<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ewnupdates?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ewnupdates<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SABCNewsOnline?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SABCNewsOnline<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SAfmRadio?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SAfmRadio<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POWER987News?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@POWER987News<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ukhozi_fm?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ukhozi_fm<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2lircWf6vi\">pic.twitter.com\/2lircWf6vi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eskom Hld SOC Ltd (@Eskom_SA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Eskom_SA\/status\/1203739308240384002?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>To cope with the loss of these units, Eskom was forced to increase its reliance on diesel and water at its open-cycle gas turbines and pumped storage schemes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegrettably, as a result, we have been unable to conserve water and diesel as required to stop or to minimise load-shedding for the coming week,\u201d Eskom said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe remind customers that load-shedding is a responsible act to prevent a national blackout.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/358521\/why-eskom-expects-a-r20-billion-full-year-loss-despite-turning-a-mid-year-profit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Why Eskom expects a R20 billion full year loss \u2013 despite turning a mid-year profit<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom has said that it will implement stage 2 load-shedding until 23h00 on Monday 9 December.<\/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-360678","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\/360678","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=360678"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360686,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360678\/revisions\/360686"}],"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=360678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}