{"id":79654,"date":"2015-01-29T12:40:51","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T10:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=79654"},"modified":"2015-01-29T10:48:15","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T08:48:15","slug":"risk-load-shedding-hangs-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/01\/29\/risk-load-shedding-hangs-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Risk of load shedding hangs over communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom is once again\u00a0appealing to consumers to reduce electricity consumption in an effort to avoid further load shedding.<\/p>\n<p>Since Monday the company has implemented load shedding\u00a0after several of its generators broke down.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Eskom officials say the risk of further power cuts this week remains high.<\/p>\n<p>After yesterday&#8217;s (Wednesday) load shedding Eskom is urging consumers to be patient as technicians work to repair its faulty generators.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>It is reported that load shedding came to an early end yesterday as there was a reduced energy demand.<\/p>\n<p>However, Eskom says its grid is still under pressure as essential maintenance is being carried out on an aging fleet of generators.<\/p>\n<p>Has load shedding affected your area?<\/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='6bf8c80474742f4fb3a28ac655a6b8d0'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom appeals to customers to reduce their electricity usage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":79655,"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":[8297,1012,1003,1373,3023,1106,979,969,2730,3024,1002,1004,4626],"class_list":["post-79654","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-metro","tag-municipality","tag-power-outage"],"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","metro","municipality","Power outage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79654","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=79654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}