{"id":80353,"date":"2015-02-06T08:40:51","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T06:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=80353"},"modified":"2015-02-06T08:46:30","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T06:46:30","slug":"communities-face-second-day-stage-two-load-shedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/02\/06\/communities-face-second-day-stage-two-load-shedding\/","title":{"rendered":"Communities face a second day of stage two load shedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom announced this morning (Friday) that there will be stage two load shedding from 8am until 10pm yet again.<\/p>\n<p>Load shedding was pushed to stage three yesterday afternoon.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>This means the power system is more vulnerable than ever before and that Eskom needs to shed 4 000 megawatts from the national grid.<\/p>\n<p>It has been reported that load shedding could go into the weekend\u00a0as several generating units remain offline.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>It has since been reported that human error may have contributed to this week&#8217;s technical problems.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, a unit at the Koeberg Power Station went offline which the company has now admitted was caused by technicians working at the plant in the Western Cape.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause we have lost a number of generators since the beginning of this week, we are likely to see a repeat of yesterday (Thursday) and partly over the weekend as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We still have to do a lot of maintenance of the generators which are down now,\u201d explained\u00a0Khulu Phasiwe, spokesman for Eskom.<\/p>\n<p>Eskom will continue to update the community on the power grid&#8217;s status.<\/p>\n<p>Visit http:\/\/loadshedding.eskom.co.za\/ for more information.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the load shedding schedule for the Germiston and Palm Ridge areas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2015\/02\/2014-Loadshedding-Germiston-Palm-Ridge-Custom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-80311\" src=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2015\/02\/2014-Loadshedding-Germiston-Palm-Ridge-Custom-423x365.jpg\" alt=\"2014 Loadshedding Germiston  Palm Ridge (Custom)\" width=\"423\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2015\/02\/2014-Loadshedding-Germiston-Palm-Ridge-Custom-423x365.jpg 423w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2015\/02\/2014-Loadshedding-Germiston-Palm-Ridge-Custom-200x172.jpg 200w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2015\/02\/2014-Loadshedding-Germiston-Palm-Ridge-Custom-50x43.jpg 50w, 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