{"id":60673,"date":"2014-06-17T16:58:42","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T14:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=60673"},"modified":"2014-06-17T16:58:42","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T14:58:42","slug":"power-exceptionally-tight-eskom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/60673\/power-exceptionally-tight-eskom\/","title":{"rendered":"Power exceptionally tight: Eskom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s power grid remained under pressure on Tuesday, Eskom said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over the evening peak, in the early evening, we are expecting the grid to be exceptionally tight with a chance of needing to reduce demand,&#8221; spokesman Andrew Etzinger said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A similar situation for Wednesday and Thursday evening as well is expected, and that is due to expected high demand related to the weather.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The company has previously urged users to switch off appliances and geysers during the 5pm to 9pm peak, and especially between 5.30pm and 6.30pm, when the peak was most pronounced.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Eskom<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Load-shedding unlikely this weekend: Eskom\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/60507\/load-shedding-unlikely-this-weekend-eskom\/\"><strong>Load-shedding unlikely this weekend: Eskom<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\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>South Africa&#8217;s power grid remained under pressure on Tuesday, Eskom said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":56303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1164,26],"class_list":["post-60673","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\/60673","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=60673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60675,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60673\/revisions\/60675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}