{"id":86326,"date":"2015-05-03T16:59:20","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T14:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=86326"},"modified":"2015-05-03T16:59:20","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T14:59:20","slug":"stage-1-load-shedding-hits-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/86326\/stage-1-load-shedding-hits-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Stage 1 load shedding hits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stage 1 load shedding will take place from 17:00 until 22:00 on 3 May due to a shortage of generation capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Eskom said several of its units are &#8220;currently out of service due to maintenance&#8221;, and this is the cause of the controlled blackouts.<\/p>\n<p>The load shedding announcements follows a 28 April statement by Eskom which said the company had\u00a0performed planned maintenance on 2,303MW of power generating units.<\/p>\n<p>Eskom also returned 1,453MW of generating capacity back to service over this period, it said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_125444\" style=\"width: 642px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Eskom-load-shedding.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-125444\" class=\"wp-image-125444 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Eskom-load-shedding.jpg\" alt=\"Eskom Twitter\" width=\"632\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-125444\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eskom Twitter<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_125442\" style=\"width: 642px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Eskom-load-shedding-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-125442\" class=\"wp-image-125442\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Eskom-load-shedding-1.jpg\" alt=\"Eskom Twitter\" width=\"632\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-125442\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eskom Twitter<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Eskom<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Eskom workers eat like kings despite financial crisis\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/86320\/eskom-workers-eat-like-kings-despite-financial-crisis\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Eskom workers eat like kings despite financial crisis<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/86174\/ten-defaulting-municipalities-safe-from-eskom-power-cuts\/\">Ten defaulting municipalities safe from Eskom power cuts<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Eskom dragging South Africa down\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/86128\/eskom-dragging-south-africa-down\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Eskom dragging South Africa down<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest load shedding update from Eskom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":79083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1164,26,1165],"class_list":["post-86326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-eskom","tag-headline","tag-load-shedding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86326","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=86326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86330,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86326\/revisions\/86330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}