{"id":384781,"date":"2020-03-25T18:01:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T16:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=384781"},"modified":"2020-03-25T18:01:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T16:01:19","slug":"no-lockdown-load-shedding-expected-but-eskom-makes-no-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/384781\/no-lockdown-load-shedding-expected-but-eskom-makes-no-promises\/","title":{"rendered":"No lockdown load shedding expected &#8211; but Eskom makes no promises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom says that some of its staff and workers are exempt from South Africa&#8217;s strict lockdown restrictions and should be able to keep power supply over the three week period.<\/p>\n<p>Because of this, the power utlity said that it does not foresee any impediments to the generation and supply during the lockdown period, and no load shedding is expected.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our suppliers, particularly the coal mines, logistics, suppliers and those supplying the parts and maintenance services at our power stations, will be able to operate through the lockdown,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>However, despite this, it said that the possibility of load shedding will persist.<\/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> 1<\/p>\n<p>Date: 25 March 2020<\/p>\n<p>No loadshedding is expected during the Covid-19 Lockdown<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/News24?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@News24<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Newzroom405?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Newzroom405<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimesLIVE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TimesLIVE<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eNCA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@eNCA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IOL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@iol<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SABCNewsOnline?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SABCNewsOnline<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheCitizen_News?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheCitizen_News<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ewnupdates?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ewnupdates<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimesLIVE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TimesLIVE<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Rq2lSrE9x6\">pic.twitter.com\/Rq2lSrE9x6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eskom Hld SOC Ltd (@Eskom_SA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Eskom_SA\/status\/1242835340982997003?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 25, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a cabinet media briefing on Wednesday, Mineral Resources and Energy minister Gwede Mantashe said that Eskom would be under less strain during the lockdown period as most business and high-use industries will be quietening down.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Supplying Eskom with coal is a requirement and we are appreciative of the fact that with a lockdown the demand will be very low, therefore it is unlikely that we will have load-shedding.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Therefore we don\u2019t have a fear of load-shedding, but we require Eskom not to be in a situation where they cannot supply electricity to society,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Eskom asked all stakeholders in the country to work with the group to manage electricity consumption responsibly.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/384733\/johannesburg-reconnects-water-and-lights-for-all-non-paying-residents-ahead-of-lockdown\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Johannesburg reconnects water and lights for all non-paying residents ahead of lockdown<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom says that some of its staff and workers are exempt from South Africa&#8217;s strict lockdown restrictions and should be able to keep power supply over the three week period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":329439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1164,26],"class_list":["post-384781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-eskom","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384781","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=384781"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":384799,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384781\/revisions\/384799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}