{"id":89976,"date":"2015-06-07T16:03:29","date_gmt":"2015-06-07T14:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=89976"},"modified":"2015-06-07T16:03:29","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T14:03:29","slug":"technical-faults-forces-eskom-load-shedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/89976\/technical-faults-forces-eskom-load-shedding\/","title":{"rendered":"Technical faults forces Eskom load shedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom said on Sunday it will implement stage 1 load shedding from 17:00 until 22:00 this evening.<\/p>\n<p>According to Eskom this is due to a shortage of generation capacity resulting from technical faults at some of our units.<\/p>\n<p>Eskom, however, warned that any unexpected changes on the already vulnerable power system could lead to a change in the load shedding stage at short notice, adding that load shedding is only implemented as a necessary measure to protect the power system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we are currently experiencing cold weather conditions across the country, we urge electricity users to consider energy efficient ways of keeping warm,\u201d an Eskom statement read.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news24wire.com\/browse\/feeds#Digital|2088f42e-d60a-4315-b917-392434e19bfd\" target=\"_blank\">News24<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Eskom<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/89646\/diesel-costs-driving-eskom-tariffs-up\/\" target=\"_blank\">Diesel costs driving Eskom tariffs up<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/85810\/how-molefe-plans-to-pull-eskom-out-of-its-financial-mess\/\"><strong>How Molefe plans to pull Eskom out of its financial mess<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/89528\/eskoms-r50-billion-coal-headache\/\">Eskom\u2019s R50 billion coal headache<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/89028\/no-planned-winter-load-shedding-eskom-ceo\/\"><strong>No planned winter load shedding: Eskom CEO<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom said on Sunday it will implement stage 1 load shedding from 17:00 until 22:00 this evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":85071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874],"tags":[25,1164],"class_list":["post-89976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-active","tag-eskom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89976","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=89976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89978,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89976\/revisions\/89978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}