{"id":85864,"date":"2015-04-23T19:37:54","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T17:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=85864"},"modified":"2015-04-23T20:28:42","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T18:28:42","slug":"eskom-moves-to-stage-2-load-shedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/85864\/eskom-moves-to-stage-2-load-shedding\/","title":{"rendered":"Eskom moves back to stage 1 load shedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> As from 20:10 this evening, Eskom reverted back to Stage 1 load shedding. Load shedding is planned until 22:00.<\/p>\n<p>Eskom announced that stage 2 load shedding was implemented from just before 18:00 on Thursday (23 April 2015), and that it is expected to continue until 22:00.<\/p>\n<p>A further shortage of generating capacity and increased demand resulted in the need for increased load shedding, Eskom said.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes after the power utility said earlier on Thursday that Stage 1 load shedding would be necessary from 17:00 to 22:00.<\/p>\n<p>Stage 1 allows for 1,000MW of load on the power grid to be shed, while Stage 2 allows for 2,000MW of load shedding.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday marks the the 12th day of load shedding in a row that South Africans have had to face.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on\u00a0energy<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to These areas are exempt from load shedding\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/85674\/these-areas-are-exempt-from-load-shedding\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">These areas are exempt from load shedding<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/85650\/eskom-load-shedding-risk-for-the-week\/\">Eskom load shedding risk for the week<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Petrol price decrease coming: AA\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/85353\/petrol-price-decrease-coming-aa\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Petrol price decrease coming: AA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom announced that stage 1 load shedding will be implemented until 22h00 on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":79081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,1164,1165],"class_list":["post-85864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active","tag-eskom","tag-load-shedding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85864","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85864"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85868,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85864\/revisions\/85868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}