{"id":79460,"date":"2015-01-27T11:02:52","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T09:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=79460"},"modified":"2015-01-27T11:50:16","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T09:50:16","slug":"load-shedding-back-cards-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/01\/27\/load-shedding-back-cards-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Load shedding back on the cards for today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stage one load shedding to be implemented as of 10.30am today (Tuesday).<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today the company had said that load shedding was not on the cards, however, this could change at a moment&#8217;s notice as electricity reserve margins remain low.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Eskom later reported that it was unable to keep up with demands.<\/p>\n<p>This is due to two generators breaking down yesterday, while extensive maintenance work is underway.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Eskom\u2019s Andrew Etzinger said that load shedding is expected until about 10pm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the moment we have a limited amount of capacity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Twenty-five percent of our generation fleet is currently not available due to technical problems and this has put us over the edge.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So it is both the unit that tripped yesterday and a number of other ones we need to get back as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Visit http:\/\/loadshedding.eskom.co.za\/ for updates on the on going load shedding.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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='49af7f20715915a6941e11153b7b92d9'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stage one load shedding to be implemented from 10.30am to 10pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":79366,"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":[8297,1012,1003,3023,1106,979,969,2730,3024,1002,1004,6412],"class_list":["post-79460","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-eskom","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-load-shedding","tag-metro","tag-municipality","tag-stage-one"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","eskom","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","Load Shedding","metro","municipality","stage one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79460","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=79460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}