{"id":12475,"date":"2012-07-17T00:53:49","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T22:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/s-africa-power-buffer-down-to-1-pct-of-capacity\/"},"modified":"2012-07-17T00:53:49","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T22:53:49","slug":"s-africa-power-buffer-down-to-1-pct-of-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africa-power-buffer-down-to-1-pct-of-capacity\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa power buffer down to 1 pct of capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, July 16<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South African power<br \/>\nutility Eskom said on Monday power would be extremely<br \/>\ntight during evening peak hours, with demand expected to reach<br \/>\nits highest point this winter as a cold front sends a chill<br \/>\nthrough much of the country.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In a bi-weekly status update, Eskom said it had 36 580 MW of<br \/>\navailable capacity for the evening peak against forecast demand<br \/>\nof 36 258 MW, leaving a buffer of less than one percent.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It said snow and heavy rain had affected some power lines<br \/>\nand sub-stations over the weekend though a unit of a nuclear<br \/>\nplant that had tripped out last week had returned to service.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Ed Stoddard; Editing by Ed Cropley)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG, July 16 (Reuters) &#8211; South African power utility Eskom said on Monday power would be extremely tight during evening peak hours, with demand expected to reach its highest point this winter as a cold front sends a chill through much of the country. In a bi-weekly status update, Eskom said it had 36 580 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-12475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}