{"id":78053,"date":"2015-01-23T09:59:51","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T07:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=78053"},"modified":"2015-01-23T09:59:51","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T07:59:51","slug":"eskom-weekend-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/78053\/eskom-weekend-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Eskom weekend update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom says it expects to meet demand for the coming weekend, although the power system remains constrained for the rest of the summer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The demand in electricity tends to decrease from Friday, going into the weekend. The capacity available from Friday, through to Sunday, is therefore expected to meet forecast demand,&#8221; it said in an update on Friday (23 January).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any extra load or faults in the system may necessitate the need to go into load shedding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Eskom called on all South Africans to pull together over the next few months and use electricity sparingly by &#8220;living lightly&#8221; this summer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Weekend forecast:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Friday 23 January<\/strong>: The capacity available to meet this evening&#8217;s <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">peak demand is 30,549MW<\/span> (including open cycle gas turbines) while demand is forecast at 29,603MW.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Saturday 24 January<\/strong>: The capacity available to meet that evening&#8217;s<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> peak demand is 28,785MW<\/span> (including open cycle gas turbines) while demand is forecast at 27,841MW.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sunday 25 January<\/strong>: The capacity available to meet that evening&#8217;s <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">peak demand is 28,497MW<\/span> (including open cycle gas turbines) while demand is forecast at 27,726MW.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Eskom implemented stage one load shedding on January 9, due to high electricity demand and the unavailability of some of its generating units.<\/p>\n<p>Stage one allows for up to 1000MW of the national load to be shed, stage two for up to 2000MW, and stage three for up to 4000MW.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Eskom<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Eskom will meet electricity demand\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/78027\/eskom-will-meet-electricity-demand\/\"><strong>Eskom will meet electricity demand<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Why we have an electricity crisis, according to Zuma\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/77859\/why-we-have-an-electricity-crisis-according-to-zuma\/\"><strong>Why we have an electricity crisis, according to Zuma<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Eskom blackouts because of Apartheid: Zuma\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/76042\/eskom-blackouts-because-of-apartheid-zuma\/\"><strong>Eskom blackouts because of Apartheid: Zuma<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Eskom load shedding schedule to April 2015\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/77591\/eskom-load-shedding-schedule-to-april-2015\/\"><strong>Eskom load shedding schedule to April 2015<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom says it expects to meet demand for the coming weekend, although the power system remains constrained for the rest of the summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":77849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[1164,26],"class_list":["post-78053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-eskom","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78053","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=78053"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78059,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78053\/revisions\/78059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}