{"id":97596,"date":"2015-08-24T10:06:51","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T08:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=97596"},"modified":"2015-08-24T10:06:51","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T08:06:51","slug":"more-relief-for-national-power-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/08\/24\/more-relief-for-national-power-grid\/","title":{"rendered":"More relief for national power grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: 16.8pt;background: white\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eskom.co.za\/Pages\/Landing.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Eskom<\/a> said it plans to have all six units at the Medupi Power Station fully functional within five years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 16.8pt;background: white\">One of these unit came online yesterday (Sunday).<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"line-height: 16.8pt;background: white\">The unit was handed over to the company&#8217;s operational division after undergoing testing for months.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 16.8pt;background: white\">Medupi has been contributing 800 megawatts to the power grid since March this year with the hope that it will alleviate load shedding.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"line-height: 16.8pt;background: white\">Eskom spokesman Khulu Phasiwe said, \u201cThis power is not a thoroughly new power per say.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 16.8pt;background: white\">\u201cIt is power that we have been using all along.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 16.8pt;background: white\">It is hoped that this addition to the power grid will reduce the risk of load shedding.<\/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='92aea4b01dd79d5cb67d39f4bef13810'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medupi Power Station unit comes online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":76119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8515,2],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,1002,1004],"class_list":["post-97596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-metro","tag-municipality"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","metro","municipality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97596","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=97596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}