{"id":90755,"date":"2015-06-01T10:53:30","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T08:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=90755"},"modified":"2015-06-01T10:53:30","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T08:53:30","slug":"no-load-shedding-on-the-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/06\/01\/no-load-shedding-on-the-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"No load shedding on the cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today (Monday) marks three days without load shedding and today&#8217;s prognosis remains low.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is currently no planned load shedding as Eskom has enough generating capacity to meet the demand,\u201d this was announced by the company in a press release this morning.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cEskom is pleased to announce that we were able to go through yesterday\u2019s morning and evening peak demand periods without having to go into load shedding thereby averting load shedding for the day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In winter the electricity demand peaks in the morning and evening as more electricity is used during these times.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The company therefore, appeals to all customers to continue to reduce their electricity usage throughout the day but to be aware of the need to save more during the peak periods from 6am to 10am and 5pm to 9pm<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eskom.co.za\/Pages\/Landing.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Eskom<\/a> will provide regular updates on the status of the power system through all the media platforms.<\/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='440824ad316342f4a557258cd1d144ea'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chance of load shedding remains low today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":90246,"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-90755","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\/90755","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=90755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}