{"id":103831,"date":"2019-10-21T15:02:06","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T13:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=103831"},"modified":"2019-10-22T11:29:27","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T09:29:27","slug":"breaking-news-hendrina-powerstation-residents-prepare-unforeseen-electricity-outages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2019\/10\/21\/breaking-news-hendrina-powerstation-residents-prepare-unforeseen-electricity-outages\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: Hendrina Powerstation down, residents to prepare for unforeseen electricity outages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents from Hendrina could confirm, after visiting the station, that the whole plant is currently without electricity.<br \/>\nSeveral sources have confirmed that all units are currently out of order at the plant.<\/p>\n<p>Eskom Spokesperson, Juanita Vogel, confirmed that it was a multi-unit trip. She said that the situation does not affect the current &#8220;no loadshedding&#8221; status because there are enough emergency reserves available at the moment.<\/p>\n<div>A source said that technicians are currently looking to determine the cause of the fault.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u2022The estimated restoration time remains unknown, but an update with more information will follow.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>15:10:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Pullenshope residents have informed that the electricity in their area has been restored.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mechanical failure has resulted in all units at Hendrina Power station being down, leaving the Pullenshope and Hendrina areas without electricity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":69418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Sjani Campher","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[5812,21505,21506,21510,21508,10010,12898,21507,21509,10333],"class_list":["post-103831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-breaking-news","tag-hendrina-power-plant-down","tag-hendrina-power-station-down","tag-hendrina-power-station-without-electricity","tag-hendrina-without-electricity","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-news","tag-multi-unit-trip-at-hendrina-power-station","tag-pullenshope-without-electricity","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["Breaking News","hendrina power plant down","hendrina power station down","hendrina power station without electricity","hendrina without electricity","local news","middelburg news","multi unit trip at hendrina power station","pullenshope without electricity","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}