{"id":80081,"date":"2015-02-18T13:15:49","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T11:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=80081"},"modified":"2015-02-18T13:15:49","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T11:15:49","slug":"eskom-load-shedding-update-for-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/80081\/eskom-load-shedding-update-for-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Eskom load shedding update for Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom does not anticipate power cuts on Wednesday, but this could change as the system remains constrained.<\/p>\n<p>Any additional load or faults could necessitate rotational power cuts, Eskom&#8217;s media desk said.<\/p>\n<p>The utility was continuing its maintenance plan to increase the reserve margin and stabilise the grid, but appealed to the public to conserve electricity.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, energy department director general Wolsey Barnard told the Africa Energy Indaba it would take 20 to 30 months for Eskom to catch up with maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday Eskom resorted to stage two power cuts to build up diesel stocks for open-cycle gas turbines and dam water levels for pumped storage schemes.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Eskom<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Can angry South Africans sue Eskom?\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/79544\/can-angry-south-africans-sue-eskom\/\"><strong>Can angry South Africans sue Eskom?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"ANC coining it from Eskom electricity crisis\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/79429\/anc-coining-it-from-eskom-electricity-crisis\/\"><strong>ANC coining it from Eskom electricity crisis<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"How much Eskom blackouts costs SA every month\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/79347\/how-much-eskom-blackouts-costs-sa-every-month\/\"><strong>How much Eskom blackouts costs SA every month<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom does not anticipate power cuts on Wednesday, but this could change as the system remains constrained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":79077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,1164],"class_list":["post-80081","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\/80081","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=80081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80083,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80081\/revisions\/80083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}