{"id":73742,"date":"2014-11-18T10:13:36","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T08:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=73742"},"modified":"2014-11-18T10:14:32","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T08:14:32","slug":"no-blackouts-planned-eskom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/73742\/no-blackouts-planned-eskom\/","title":{"rendered":"No blackouts planned: Eskom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are no scheduled power blackouts planned despite increased demand for electricity, Eskom said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The cold and wet weather has resulted in increased demand for electricity but the power grid is stable,&#8221; said spokesman Andrew Etzinger.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No load-shedding has been planned at the moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, a coal storage silo at the Majuba power station in Mpumalanga collapsed, resulting in widespread power cuts.<\/p>\n<p>The silo held more than 10,000 tons of coal and affected coal supplies to all six units at the power station.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation into the collapsed silo has since been launched.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Eskom<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Wet weather puts Eskom under power strain\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/73118\/wet-weather-puts-eskom-under-power-strain\/\"><strong>Wet weather puts Eskom under power strain<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Eskom blackouts costs SA R300 billion\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/72856\/eskom-blackouts-costs-sa-r300-billion\/\"><strong>Eskom blackouts costs SA R300 billion<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom says there are no scheduled power blackouts planned despite increased demand for electricity.<\/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-73742","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\/73742","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=73742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73746,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73742\/revisions\/73746"}],"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=73742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}