{"id":92880,"date":"2015-07-10T09:43:33","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T07:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=92880"},"modified":"2015-07-10T09:43:33","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T07:43:33","slug":"cape-town-gives-load-shedding-the-finger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/92880\/cape-town-gives-load-shedding-the-finger\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Town gives load shedding the finger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There will be no load shedding in Cape Town today, the City of Cape Town has tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The City of Cape Town will avoid load-shedding today due to spare generation capacity,&#8221; said the tweet.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday the City of Cape Town also tweeted that its residents need not worry about blackouts. &#8220;Despite Eskom&#8217;s call for load shedding, the city will not implement it due to its own spare generation capacity,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>Eskom has announced that it will implement stage 1 load shedding from 08:30 on Friday, which is likely to continue until 22:00.<\/p>\n<p>This is due to increased electricity demand and a shortage of generation capacity resulting from technical faults at some of our power station units, said the power utility.<\/p>\n<p>Eskom has asked consumers to use power sparingly as cold weather conditions are being experienced across the country.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fin24.com\/Economy\/Eskom\/Cape-Town-again-spared-load-shedding-20150710\" target=\"_blank\">Fin24<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on load shedding<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There will be no load shedding in Cape Town today, the City of Cape Town has tweeted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":75316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874],"tags":[2356,1164,26],"class_list":["post-92880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-city-of-cape-town","tag-eskom","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92880","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=92880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92882,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92880\/revisions\/92882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}