{"id":79479,"date":"2015-01-28T09:28:15","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T07:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=79479"},"modified":"2015-01-28T08:48:45","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T06:48:45","slug":"interpreting-eskom-load-shedding-stages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/uncategorized\/2015\/01\/28\/interpreting-eskom-load-shedding-stages\/","title":{"rendered":"Interpreting Eskom load shedding stages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom has explained how load shedding, used under emergency conditions for limited periods, has three distinct stages.<\/p>\n<p>The three schedules have now been developed based on the possibility of risk and to ensure that it is applied in a fair and equitable manner:<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Stage one allows for up to 1000 MW of the national load to be shed.<\/p>\n<p>Stage two allows for up to 2000 MW of the national load to be shed.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Stage three allows for up to 4000 MW of the national load to be shed.<\/p>\n<p>Load shedding will be implemented in most instances in two hour blocks (with an additional 30 minutes for switching between blocks).<\/p>\n<p>You therefore may be without electricity for 2,5 to 3 hours at a time.<\/p>\n<p>Load shedding will usually, but not limited to, be implemented between 5am and 10pm.<\/p>\n<p>For more details visit www.eskom.co.za.<\/p>\n<p>The GCN has also contacted the metro to find out if the load shedding schedule provided on their website is applicable to all three load shedding stages.<\/p>\n<p>Themba Gadebe, spokesman for the metro, released the following statement:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The load shedding schedules on our website remains necessary as a reference point during stage one and two of load shedding.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is only not applicable during stage three, where Eskom has full control on load shedding process.<\/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='8b962aa0410d373c4269239ebf6c6dfd'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do the different load shedding stages mean?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":79481,"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],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,3023,1106,979,969,2730,3024,6414,1002,1004],"class_list":["post-79479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","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-load-shedding-stages","tag-metro","tag-municipality"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Special categories","SubCategory":"Editor's choice"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","eskom","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","Load Shedding","load shedding stages","metro","municipality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79479","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=79479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}