{"id":90470,"date":"2015-06-11T10:09:27","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T08:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=90470"},"modified":"2015-06-11T10:09:27","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T08:09:27","slug":"eskom-load-shedding-hits-early-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/90470\/eskom-load-shedding-hits-early-on-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Eskom load shedding hits early on Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom has implemented stage 1 load shedding from 09:35 on Thursday, which is likely to continue until 22:00 this evening.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is due to increased electricity demand due to the cold front that is currently sweeping through the country and a shortage of generation capacity resulting from technical faults at some of our units,&#8221; Eskom said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any unexpected changes on the vulnerable and constrained power system could lead to a change in the load shedding stage at short notice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As we are currently experiencing cold weather conditions across the country, we urge electricity users to consider energy efficient ways of keeping warm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fin24.com\/Economy\/Eskom\/Eskom-implements-load-shedding-for-the-day-20150611\" 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\/90338\/wear-warm-clothes-this-winter-eskom\/\">Wear warm clothes this winter: Eskom<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/89028\/no-planned-winter-load-shedding-eskom-ceo\/\">No planned winter load shedding: Eskom CEO<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/85065\/things-get-more-complicated-for-eskom-in-winter\/\"><strong>Things get more complicated for Eskom in winter<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/56987\/eskom-facing-big-problems-in-winter\/\">Eskom facing \u2018big problems\u2019 in winter<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom has implemented stage 1 load shedding from 09:35 on Thursday, which is likely to continue until 22:00 this evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":79083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874],"tags":[25,1164],"class_list":["post-90470","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\/90470","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=90470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90472,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90470\/revisions\/90472"}],"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=90470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}