{"id":86431,"date":"2015-04-15T09:43:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T07:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=86431"},"modified":"2015-04-15T10:14:36","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T08:14:36","slug":"load-limiting-to-be-introduced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/04\/15\/load-limiting-to-be-introduced\/","title":{"rendered":"Load limiting to be introduced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday a\u00a0new initiative to mitigate the impact of load shedding was introduced.<\/p>\n<p>The project called &#8216;load limiting&#8217; will be rolled out at households with smart meters.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>It will first be tested in Aspen Hills, Gauteng, before being introduced to other areas.<\/p>\n<p>With\u00a0load shedding having a serious impact on the country it is reported other options need to be investigated to keep the lights on.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>When Eskom indicates it needs to implement load shedding, Johannesburg residents with smart meters will be asked to reduce their load by between 10 and 20 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>It will require switching off geysers, stoves, television and pool pumps for a certain period to avoid having a complete power cut.<\/p>\n<p>Through these measures, it is hoped the residents will reduce enough energy to ensure load shedding is not implemented.<\/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='7f996610ab63c3bc9590c1bd8e9a7d65'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The initiative will first be tested in Aspen Hills, Gauteng, before being introduced to other areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":86435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[509,7,2],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,3023,1106,979,969,2730,7155,3024],"class_list":["post-86431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-note","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-limited-loads","tag-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","limited loads","Load Shedding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86431","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=86431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}