{"id":90158,"date":"2015-06-08T17:01:12","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T15:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=90158"},"modified":"2015-06-08T18:25:28","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T16:25:28","slug":"eskom-load-shedding-stage-1-on-monday-8-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/90158\/eskom-load-shedding-stage-1-on-monday-8-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Eskom moves to stage 2 load shedding (8 June)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> Eskom has moved into stage 2 load shedding, which is expected to continue to 22:00.<\/p>\n<p>Eskom has announced that stage 1 load shedding will be implemented from 17:00 to 22:00 on 8 June 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The power utility said the need for controlled power cuts was due to a shortage of generating capacity.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement of load shedding comes after over a week of no power cuts by Eskom.<\/p>\n<p>Eskom appealed to consumers to reduce their electricity usage where possible.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Eskom<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/86626\/soweto-owes-eskom-more-than-top-20-defaulting-municipalities\/\">Soweto owes Eskom more than top 20 defaulting municipalities<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/86930\/inside-eskoms-top-20-defaulting-municipalities\/\">Inside Eskom\u2019s top 20 defaulting municipalities<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Eskom owed R2 billion by Free State municipalities\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/86544\/eskom-owed-r2-billion-by-free-state-municipalities\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Eskom owed R2 billion by Free State municipalities<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Soweto owes Eskom more than top 20 defaulting municipalities\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/86626\/soweto-owes-eskom-more-than-top-20-defaulting-municipalities\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Soweto owes Eskom more than top 20 defaulting municipalities<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom has announced that stage 2 load shedding will be implemented on Monday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":79081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874],"tags":[25,1164,1165],"class_list":["post-90158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-active","tag-eskom","tag-load-shedding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90158","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=90158"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90180,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90158\/revisions\/90180"}],"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=90158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}