{"id":814165,"date":"2025-02-25T22:03:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T20:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=814165"},"modified":"2025-02-26T06:34:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T04:34:40","slug":"load-shedding-to-be-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/814165\/load-shedding-to-be-suspended\/","title":{"rendered":"Load shedding to be suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Power utility Eskom says that load shedding will be suspended on Wednesday, 26 February at 05h00.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This follows a rapid escalation from stage 3 to stage 6 load shedding over the weekend due to the loss of 10 units at key power stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eskom said that it has now successfully recovered enough generation capacity and made significant process in replenshing emergency reserves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Although overnight replenishment is still needed, these developments will result in a stable power system,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ongoing planned maintenance stands at 6,660MW, in alignment with the group&#8217;s summer period maintenance strategy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This increased level of maintenance is necessary to prepare for winter to further improve reliability and meet license and regulatory requirements,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eskom will communicate again on Friday, 28 February 2025, or as soon as any significant&nbsp;changes&nbsp;occur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom says it will suspend load shedding on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":679989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874],"tags":[1164,1165],"class_list":["post-814165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-eskom","tag-load-shedding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814165","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=814165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":814170,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814165\/revisions\/814170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}