{"id":86668,"date":"2015-05-06T14:44:56","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T12:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=86668"},"modified":"2015-05-20T08:37:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T06:37:04","slug":"stage-1-load-shedding-on-wednesday-6-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/86668\/stage-1-load-shedding-on-wednesday-6-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Stage 1 load shedding on Wednesday (6 May)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"section body_p_tags\">\n<p>Eskom will implement stage 1 load shedding from 17:00 on Wednesday, which is likely to continue until 22:00 this evening.<\/p>\n<p>Eskom said because of maintenance, the system will again not be able to meet 1 000MW of demand during the evening peak period.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This means that although certain areas will be without electricity for a certain period, about 96% of South Africans will still continue to receive power supply at the same time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Eskom has limited its load shedding to the evening peak only since last Wednesday as a &#8220;necessary measure to protect the power system&#8221; and to &#8220;ensure that maintenance is carried out to guarantee electricity supply can be maintained in the long term&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fin24.com\/Economy\/Eskom\/Eskom-to-start-stage-1-load-shedding-from-5pm-20150506\" target=\"_blank\">Fin24<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Eskom<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/86332\/eskom-conducts-more-maintenance\/\">Eskom conducts more maintenance<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\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<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom will implement stage 1 load shedding on Wednesday, which is likely to continue into the evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":79083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874,1],"tags":[25,1164,1165,9762],"class_list":["post-86668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","category-trending","tag-active","tag-eskom","tag-load-shedding","tag-stage-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86668","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86670,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86668\/revisions\/86670"}],"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=86668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}