{"id":78230,"date":"2015-01-09T12:59:22","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T10:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=78230"},"modified":"2015-01-09T13:52:57","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T11:52:57","slug":"load-shedding-implemented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/01\/09\/load-shedding-implemented\/","title":{"rendered":"Load shedding to be implemented"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stage one load shedding will take place nationwide from 11am to 10pm, Eskom confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The power utility attributed the power cuts to increased electricity demand.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Eskom was forced to implement load shedding several times last year due to limited generating capacity, problems at some power stations and technical issues.<\/p>\n<p>Just this week the company had two generations offline, making the power grid extremely vulnerable.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The generators have since been repaired and brought back online.<\/p>\n<p>Eskom managed to make it through the festive season without implementing load shedding, something many South Africans feared.<\/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='7f2cb39823a2eed9c8bacb67e1ded16a'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power cuts will take place from 11am to 10pm today due to an increased demand for electricity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":78231,"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":[8297,1012,1003,1373,3023,1106,979,969,2730,3024,4320,4319],"class_list":["post-78230","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-load-shedding","tag-power","tag-power-outages"],"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","Load Shedding","power","power outages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78230","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=78230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}