{"id":632457,"date":"2022-10-07T14:06:19","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T12:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=632457"},"modified":"2022-10-07T14:06:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T12:06:19","slug":"eskom-to-suspend-load-shedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/632457\/eskom-to-suspend-load-shedding\/","title":{"rendered":"Eskom to suspend load shedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Power utility Eskom says it will suspend load shedding from 05:00 on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the generation capacity constraints persist, the suspension of load-shedding is possible due to the anticipated lower weekend demand, as well as adequate levels of emergency generation reserves,\u201d the power utility stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEskom will publish a further update on Sunday afternoon, or as soon as there are any significant changes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group said that a generation unit each at Camden, Grootvlei, Hendrina, Kendal, Kriel, Majuba and Tutuka power stations hve returned to service, since Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>A generating unit at Duvha Power Station was taken offline for repairs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe currently have 5,512MW on planned maintenance, while another 13,484MW of capacity is unavailable due to breakdowns,\u201d Eskom said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/631999\/eskoms-new-board-faces-mounting-criticism-not-even-one-full-week-into-the-job\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eskom\u2019s new board faces mounting criticism \u2013 not even one full week into the job<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power utility Eskom says it will suspend load shedding from 05:00 on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":517016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874],"tags":[1164,26],"class_list":["post-632457","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\/632457","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=632457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":632459,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632457\/revisions\/632459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}