{"id":82059,"date":"2015-03-09T09:11:07","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T07:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=82059"},"modified":"2015-03-09T09:11:07","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T07:11:07","slug":"load-shedding-probability-very-high-for-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/82059\/load-shedding-probability-very-high-for-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Load shedding probability &#8216;very high&#8217; for Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom says that there is a &#8220;very high probability of load shedding for evening&#8221; on Monday (9 March).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a medium probability of load shedding during the day with a very high probability of load shedding for evening.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any unexpected changes on the already constrained and vulnerable power system could lead to load shedding at short notice,&#8221; the group said.<\/p>\n<p>Last week unit 6 at Medupi started producing power for the first time, marking the end to years of delays hindering the switch-on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithin the next three months, South Africa will see Medupi unit six\u2019s full potential of 794MW being fed into the South African national grid,\u201d Eskom chief executive Tshediso Matona said.<\/p>\n<p>Medupi\u2019s total output of 4,764MW however, is only expected to be synchronised to the grid by 2019.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Eskom<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Load shedding update for this weekend\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/81979\/load-shedding-update-for-this-weekend\/\"><strong>Load shedding update for this weekend<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom says that there is a &#8220;very high probability of load shedding for evening&#8221; on Monday (9 March).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":77857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1164,26],"class_list":["post-82059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-eskom","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82059","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=82059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82061,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82059\/revisions\/82061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}