{"id":60507,"date":"2014-06-13T13:18:43","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T11:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=60507"},"modified":"2014-06-13T13:18:43","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T11:18:43","slug":"load-shedding-unlikely-this-weekend-eskom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/60507\/load-shedding-unlikely-this-weekend-eskom\/","title":{"rendered":"Load-shedding unlikely this weekend: Eskom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Power cuts are unlikely over the weekend, Eskom said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesman Andrew Etzinger said deliberate power cuts became necessary on Thursday evening due to constraints on the power system.<\/p>\n<p>Load-shedding on Friday and over the weekend, however, appeared unlikely.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At this stage, the grid is stable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Generally, the power system was under the greatest pressure on weekday evenings between 5pm and 9pm, he said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Eskom<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"We have too much power: Eskom\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/59937\/we-have-too-much-power-eskom\/\"><strong>We have too much power: Eskom<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Eskom execs forgo bonuses\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/59625\/eskmom-execs-forgo-bonuses\/\"><strong>Eskom execs forgo bonuses<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Eskom issues load-shedding warning as cold weather sets in\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/57703\/eskom-issues-warning-as-cold-weather-sets-in\/\"><strong>Eskom issues load-shedding warning as cold weather sets in<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Eskom facing \u2018big problems\u2019 in winter\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/56987\/eskom-facing-big-problems-in-winter\/\"><strong>Eskom facing \u2018big problems\u2019 in winter<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power cuts are unlikely over the weekend, Eskom said on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":34120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,1164,1165],"class_list":["post-60507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active","tag-eskom","tag-load-shedding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60507","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60509,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60507\/revisions\/60509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}