{"id":80172,"date":"2015-02-04T09:26:32","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T07:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=80172"},"modified":"2015-02-04T11:38:18","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T09:38:18","slug":"load-shedding-implemented-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/02\/04\/load-shedding-implemented-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Load shedding could be implemented at a moment&#8217;s notice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom has released a statement this morning in which the company states that there is a high risk of load shedding for the rest of the week, this comes after several generators broke down on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday&#8217;s (Teusday) load shedding was brought to an end earlier then expected after the demand for power was brought down to a manageable level.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Eskom&#8217;s Khulu Phasiwe said that, &#8220;Load shedding could be implemented due to the vulnerability of the power grid and technical issues which have affected several generators.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur technicians will do everything possible to return them back to service as soon as possible, but the risk of load shedding for the rest of the week is high.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Until we get additional new generating capacity or the generating units which are currently out of service we will remain with this risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eskom in the meantime urged customers to continue to use electricity sparingly\u00a0and has once again appealed to customers to switch off non-essential appliances to conserve electricity.<\/p>\n<p>Phasiwe added, \u201cSwitch off the lights, especially at night when there\u2019s no one in the offices, and in the afternoon, when people knock-off they need to switch off everything including air conditioning and other devices that are energy consuming.\u201d<\/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='1a83ffabffa37753d307a0e4a2dd8baa'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National grid vulnerable due to technical issues which have affected several generators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":80176,"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":[8297,1012,1003,3023,1106,979,969,2730,3024,1002,1004,4320,4319],"class_list":["post-80172","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-power","tag-power-outages"],"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","power","power outages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80172","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=80172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}