{"id":79359,"date":"2015-02-09T14:57:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T12:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=79359"},"modified":"2015-02-09T14:57:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T12:57:43","slug":"stage-one-load-shedding-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/79359\/stage-one-load-shedding-hits\/","title":{"rendered":"Stage one load shedding hits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stage one power cuts will be implemented on Monday afternoon, electricity provider Eskom said.<\/p>\n<p>The company posted on its Twitter feed at 2.30pm: &#8220;Stage 1 load shedding to be implemented from 4pm to 10pm due to shortage of capacity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Monday, spokesman Khulu Phasiwe said Eskom could meet current electricity demand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The power system is constrained but stable,&#8221; Phasiwe said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have enough generator capacity to meet the demand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Phasiwe said if Eskom lost a unit or if demand increased, rolling power cuts would be implemented.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But so far we are able to meet the demand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Eskom ended stage two rolling power cuts around 10pm.<\/p>\n<p>It warned the power system would be under &#8220;severe pressure&#8221; over the coming week.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Eskom<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Help me sue Eskom\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/79247\/help-me-sue-eskom\/\"><strong>Help me sue Eskom<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Eskom wants to charge more for peak demand\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/78431\/eskom-wants-to-charge-more-for-peak-demand\/\"><strong>Eskom wants to charge more for peak demand<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Eskom didn\u2019t even say sorry\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/77433\/eskom-didnt-even-say-sorry\/\">Eskom didn\u2019t even say sorry<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stage one power cuts will be implemented on Monday afternoon, electricity provider Eskom said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":79083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,1164],"class_list":["post-79359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active","tag-eskom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79359","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=79359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79361,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79359\/revisions\/79361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}