{"id":92765,"date":"2015-06-27T07:28:31","date_gmt":"2015-06-27T05:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=92765"},"modified":"2015-06-26T14:32:49","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T12:32:49","slug":"high-risk-of-load-shedding-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/06\/27\/high-risk-of-load-shedding-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"High risk of load shedding this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>There is a high risk of load shedding this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>This is due to increased electricity demand as a result of the cold front that is currently sweeping through parts of the country as well as a shortage of generation capacity resulting from technical faults at some of Eskom&#8217;s power station units.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eskom.co.za\/Pages\/Landing.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Eskom<\/a> would like to assure customers that load shedding is implemented as a necessary measure to protect the power system and to ensure that maintenance is carried out in order to guarantee that our supply of electricity can be maintained in the long term.<\/p>\n<p>As we are currently experiencing cold weather conditions across the country, we urge electricity users to consider energy efficient ways of keeping warm.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Related articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/92189\/whats-going-on-with-the-power-in-germiston\/\" target=\"_blank\">Germiston\u2019s load shedding woes<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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='5f42cb789e6bdbac21808eef0ab77711'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cold weather a contributing factor to weekend load shedding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":86679,"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-92765","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\/92765","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=92765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}