{"id":627080,"date":"2022-09-21T06:59:42","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T04:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=627080"},"modified":"2022-09-21T12:41:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T10:41:58","slug":"load-shedding-continues-at-stage-5-on-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/627080\/load-shedding-continues-at-stage-5-on-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Load shedding continues at stage 5 on Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Load shedding will continue to be implemented at Stage 5, with the possibility of reducing one stage by Thursday, Eskom said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since yesterday afternoon four generation units at four power stations were taken offline for emergency repairs. These are a generating unit each at Arnot, Lethabo, Kendal and Majuba power stations,&#8221; the power utility said.<\/p>\n<p>Seven units returned to service at Camden, Kendal, Kriel, Kusile, Lethabo and Majuba power stations.<\/p>\n<p>While some generation units are anticipated to return to service, Eskom said it is necessary to continue at stage 5 load shedding to limit the use of the emergency generation reserves. &#8220;The emergency generation reserves are severely constrained by extensive utilisation to supplement generation capacity,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We currently have 4,098MW on planned maintenance, while another 17,121MW of capacity is unavailable due to breakdowns,&#8221; Eskom said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/626870\/durban-has-r324-billion-plan-to-end-power-cuts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Durban has R324 billion plan to end power cuts<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Load shedding will continue to be implemented at Stage 5, with the possibility of reducing one stage by Thursday, Eskom said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":601028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874],"tags":[1164,26],"class_list":["post-627080","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\/627080","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=627080"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":627298,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627080\/revisions\/627298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}