{"id":88821,"date":"2015-05-08T08:50:26","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T06:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=88821"},"modified":"2015-05-08T08:50:26","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T06:50:26","slug":"high-risk-of-load-shedding-today-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/05\/08\/high-risk-of-load-shedding-today-5\/","title":{"rendered":"High risk of load shedding today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom this morning announced that there&#8217;s a very high chance of load shedding today.<\/p>\n<p>South Africans have experienced rolling black outs for the passed few days with stage two load shedding being implemented last night.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Stage two load shedding means there is a national shortage of 2,000 megawatts.<\/p>\n<p>The power utility said this morning that the national power grid remains severely constrained as the company battles to keep up with the power demand.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The company will continue to keep the community updated throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2015\/04\/2014-Loadshedding-Germiston-Palm-Ridge-Custom1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-86679\" src=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2015\/04\/2014-Loadshedding-Germiston-Palm-Ridge-Custom1-462x400.jpg\" alt=\"2014 Loadshedding Germiston  Palm Ridge (Custom)\" width=\"462\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2015\/04\/2014-Loadshedding-Germiston-Palm-Ridge-Custom1-462x400.jpg 462w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2015\/04\/2014-Loadshedding-Germiston-Palm-Ridge-Custom1-234x203.jpg 234w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2015\/04\/2014-Loadshedding-Germiston-Palm-Ridge-Custom1.jpg 694w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/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='5fac42e0f78f0a61ea68ebbc40966cca'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom battles to keep up with the demand for power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":88624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[508,7,2],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,3023,1106,979,969,2730,3024,1002,1004],"class_list":["post-88821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","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\/88821","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=88821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}