{"id":73228,"date":"2014-11-12T09:10:34","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T07:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=73228"},"modified":"2014-11-12T09:10:34","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T07:10:34","slug":"eskom-calls-consumers-use-power-sparingly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/11\/12\/eskom-calls-consumers-use-power-sparingly\/","title":{"rendered":"Eskom calls on consumers to use power sparingly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom has called on all consumers to reduce their electricity usage by at least 10 percent in order to reveal some of the pressure on the power grid.<\/p>\n<p>It is reported that the system is currently under severe strain.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>This due to the loss of additional generation capacity caused by technical faults and the change in weather conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The utility has warned that if the required power is not saved from now until 8pm, it may have to implement load shedding.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Eskom spokesmen Andrew Etzinger said, \u201cThe demand for electricity is much higher than it normally is because of the cold and rainy weather.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This puts the grid under severe strain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This latest warning comes off the heel of a silo collapsed at the Majuba Power Station in Mpumalanga, which lead to a number of blackouts.<\/p>\n<p>The collapse is still under investigation, with reports indicating it may take up to six months to complete.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='07d1ff78d7093c025c0ab0588eecb3f3'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom has released a warning to the community to use power sparingly, in hopes of easing the pressure on the national power grid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":73229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,1373,3023,1106,979,969,2730,4320,4319,5534],"class_list":["post-73228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-electricity","tag-eskom","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-power","tag-power-outages","tag-reduce-usage"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","electricity","eskom","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","power","power outages","reduce usage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}