{"id":80657,"date":"2015-02-24T15:17:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T13:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=80657"},"modified":"2015-02-24T15:17:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T13:17:43","slug":"load-shedding-risk-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/80657\/load-shedding-risk-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Load shedding risk high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"BodyP1\">There was a high risk of rolling blackouts on Tuesday due to a &#8220;very constrained&#8221; power system, Eskom said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">&#8220;The power system is currently very constrained and there is a high probability of load shedding later this afternoon,&#8221; spokesman Khulu Phasiwe said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">&#8220;It important to note that we have not declared an emergency or announced load shedding, but we are seeing a lot of demand on the system and expect it to get worse this afternoon when people get home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">That was when people used their stoves and other appliances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">&#8220;On a technical side, the engineers are doing all things possible to bring all generators back on the grid,&#8221; Phasiwe said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Eskom<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Eskom\u2019s Medupi unit 6 update\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/80141\/eskoms-medupi-unit-6-update\/\"><strong>Eskom\u2019s Medupi unit 6 update<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Eskom wants R4.75 billion from municipalities\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/80411\/eskom-wants-r4-75-billion-from-municipalities\/\"><strong>Eskom wants R4.75 billion from municipalities<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a high risk of rolling blackouts on Tuesday due to a &#8220;very constrained&#8221; power system, Eskom said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":72374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,1164],"class_list":["post-80657","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\/80657","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=80657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80659,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80657\/revisions\/80659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}