{"id":80621,"date":"2015-02-10T08:48:18","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T06:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=80621"},"modified":"2015-02-10T08:48:18","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T06:48:18","slug":"eskom-battles-keep-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/02\/10\/eskom-battles-keep-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Eskom battles to keep up with demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The risk of load shedding will remain high for today and the rest of the week.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as Eskom battles to keep up with electricity demand, with several generators still offline due to maintenance and technical faults.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Stage one load shedding was implemented yesterday as the company couldn&#8217;t keep up with demand.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesman for Eskom, Khulu Phasiwe said yesterday that the company are trying to bring several generators back online.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cOur technicians are working on other power stations to see if the generators can be brought online.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The high temperatures in South Africa are partly to blame for Monday\u2019s load shedding, with electricity demand increasing drastically.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The high temperatures mean\u00a0more people were using fans and air conditioners.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Consumers are urged to use electricity sparingly to help ease the pressure 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='94eec984eaa329b8d2c98d137a7bf432'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consumers asked to use electricity sparingly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":80622,"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-80621","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\/80621","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=80621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}