{"id":96668,"date":"2015-08-11T11:18:13","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T09:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=96668"},"modified":"2015-08-11T11:18:13","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T09:18:13","slug":"power-system-remains-stable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/08\/11\/power-system-remains-stable\/","title":{"rendered":"Power system remains stable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following several days without load shedding the power system is currently stable, enabling Eskom to perform maintenance without load shedding.<\/p>\n<p>However, this could change with an increase in electricity demand in the evening due to the cold weather and a number of power stations\u2019 units being on maintenance.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The power system is expected to be constrained during the evening peak period 5pm to 9pm.<\/p>\n<p>Consumers are asked to <a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/90568\/energy-saving-tips-from-eskom\/\" target=\"_blank\">use electricity sparingly<\/a>.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Commercial customers, particularly shopping centres and office blocks, can also make a big difference by switching off non-essential lights and not leaving office equipment such as photocopiers and computers in standby mode after hours.<\/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='866c4cda6901e9214d16c6f8e155941a'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cold weather could contribute to an increase demand for electricity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":95530,"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-96668","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\/96668","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=96668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}