{"id":80247,"date":"2015-02-04T13:24:14","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T11:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=80247"},"modified":"2015-02-04T13:32:06","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T11:32:06","slug":"eskom-push-load-shedding-stage-two-2pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/02\/04\/eskom-push-load-shedding-stage-two-2pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Eskom to push load shedding to stage two from 2pm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After implementing stage one load shedding Eskom has announced that stage two will come into effect from 2pm this afternoon (Wednesday).<\/p>\n<p>This is due to the fact that two of the company&#8217;s generators at its Majuba and Lethabo power stations went offline during the early hours of the morning due to technical faults.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Eskom has warned that its reserves are marginal and its systems are very old, placing the entire electricity grid at risk.<\/p>\n<p>Eskom&#8217;s Khulu Phasiwe said, \u201cWe don&#8217;t have enough generating capacity to meet the demands.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;That is why from 10am this morning until 10pm in the evening, we\u2019re going to implement various stages of load shedding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company continued to urge customers to use energy sparingly and has once again appealed to customers to switch off non-essential appliances to conserve electricity and assist in easing the demand on the national power grid.<\/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='09ae8cc2de2243ae0e2fc3d23c0ab683'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Load shedding stage two to be implemented. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":80248,"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":[8297,1012,1003,3023,1106,979,969,2730,3024,1002,1004,6415,6472],"class_list":["post-80247","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-two","tag-stage-two-load-shedding"],"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 two","stage two load shedding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80247","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=80247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}