{"id":74063,"date":"2014-11-21T08:39:01","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T06:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=74063"},"modified":"2014-11-21T08:39:01","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T06:39:01","slug":"unforeseen-technical-problems-put-power-grid-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/11\/21\/unforeseen-technical-problems-put-power-grid-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Unforeseen technical problems put power grid under pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">The power system is severely constrained due to unforeseen technical problems at power stations, said Eskom in a press release yesterday. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">This would mean that should the power utility experience further technical problems, load shedding may need to be implement. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Eskom calls on consumers to urgently switch off geysers, air conditioners, pool pumps and all non-essential appliances to prevent the need for rotational load shedding. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">As workers leave office buildings in the evening Eskom asks that they switch off the lights, with the exception of security lighting and avoid leaving on air-conditioning overnight. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Eskom\u2019s load shedding schedules are available for Eskom direct customers on our website http:\/\/loadshedding.eskom.co.za\/. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Customers can also contact the call centre on 0860 037 566 for additional information. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Load shedding schedules will only be utilised for the duration of the constraint.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Eskom will strive to provide regular updates on the status of the power system. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><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='b3aa2d7ada2bf332858660fbf3268443'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom urges consumers to use electricity sparely to avoid load shedding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":74019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[508,7,2],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,1373,1106,979,969,2730,3024,4320,4319],"class_list":["post-74063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-electricity","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-load-shedding","tag-power","tag-power-outages"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","electricity","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","Load Shedding","power","power outages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74063","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=74063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}