{"id":87047,"date":"2015-04-20T14:06:53","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T12:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=87047"},"modified":"2015-04-20T14:06:53","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T12:06:53","slug":"the-risk-of-load-shedding-remains-high-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/04\/20\/the-risk-of-load-shedding-remains-high-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The risk of load shedding remains high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As some residents spend their first day in over a week without load shedding, Eskom has\u00a0said that the risk of load shedding still remains high.<\/p>\n<p>The utility said any unexpected break downs will force the company to implement load shedding, however, the company is in a\u00a0better situation compared to the past three days as several generators had been brought back to service.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>It has been reported that the company&#8217;s diesel and water reserves have also improved over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesperson Khulu Phasiwe said, \u201cWe also see an increase in terms of demand.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Those two factors sometimes result in load shedding.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But so far, things are looking good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Phasiwe said that despite the gradual improvement, there\u2019s still a long way to go in terms of relief.<\/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='8e50134dc2d9e291fde5c0a5563fca18'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several generators have been brought back online &#8211; says Eskom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":87048,"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],"class_list":["post-87047","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"],"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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87047","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=87047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}