{"id":79843,"date":"2015-02-02T09:11:05","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T07:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=79843"},"modified":"2015-02-02T09:11:05","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T07:11:05","slug":"technical-fault-koeberg-power-station-eskom-concerned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/02\/02\/technical-fault-koeberg-power-station-eskom-concerned\/","title":{"rendered":"Technical fault at a Koeberg Power Station has Eskom concerned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A unit at the Koeberg Power Station has been taken offline due to a technical fault this morning (Monday).<\/p>\n<p>This has resulted in almost 1,000 megawatts being stripped from the national power grid.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Despite this fault Eskom says the system is stable for now, but reminds communities that this latest technical fault will further strain the country&#8217;s already fragile power network.<\/p>\n<p>Eskom&#8217;s Khulu Phasiwe said this morning that the company will continue to give regular updates on the situation at the station.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cOur aspiration is not to have load shedding at all this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But we must understand that we are running a very vulnerable power network which is prone to have technical faults.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eskom has once again appealed\u00a0to consumers to reduce electricity consumption this week in an effort to assist the delicate power grid and avoid load shedding.<\/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='3d1b0a704819990624bae8e696794822'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A technical fault at a Koeberg unit has stripped 1,000 megawatts from the national grid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":79844,"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":[8297,1012,1003,1373,3023,1106,979,969,2730,3024,4319],"class_list":["post-79843","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-eskom","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-load-shedding","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 outages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79843","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=79843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}