{"id":86726,"date":"2015-05-07T09:21:35","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T07:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=86726"},"modified":"2015-05-20T08:36:23","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T06:36:23","slug":"eskom-stage-1-load-shedding-on-thursday-7-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/86726\/eskom-stage-1-load-shedding-on-thursday-7-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Eskom moves to stage 2 load shedding (7 May)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Update: <\/strong>Eskom has announced that it\u00a0will move to stage 2 from 17h00 until 22h00 today.<\/p>\n<p>Eskom has broken its pattern of evening load shedding over the last week and implemented stage 1 load shedding on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<div class=\"section body_p_tags\">\n<p>The power utility said in a tweet it &#8220;implemented stage 1 load shedding at 08:35 this morning, likely to continue until 22:00 tonight. We apologise for the inconvenience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Eskom has kept load shedding to an evening activity in recent days, but the loss of additional generating capacity and the start of winter is putting pressure on the grid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Eskom<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/86668\/stage-1-load-shedding-on-wednesday-6-may\/\">Stage 1 load shedding on Wednesday (6 May)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom has broken its pattern of evening load shedding over the last week and implemented stage 1 load shedding on Thursday morning.<\/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],"class_list":["post-86726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","category-trending","tag-active","tag-eskom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86726","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=86726"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86786,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86726\/revisions\/86786"}],"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=86726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}