{"id":6898,"date":"2012-01-10T20:32:33","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T18:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/and-in-news-that-you-dont-want-to-hear-but-expected-to-eskom-warns-of-rolling-power-cuts\/"},"modified":"2012-01-10T20:32:33","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T18:32:33","slug":"and-in-news-that-you-dont-want-to-hear-but-expected-to-eskom-warns-of-rolling-power-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/and-in-news-that-you-dont-want-to-hear-but-expected-to-eskom-warns-of-rolling-power-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"And in News That you Don\u2019t Want to Hear but Expected to \u2013 Eskom warns of rolling power cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><\/p>\n<p>South Africans have been urged to use electricity sparingly and switch off all non-essential appliances as Eskom warns of possible electricity load-shedding that could last until March.<\/p>\n<p>While the power utility had not confirmed reports of imminent power outages, it did indicate on its website that there was a risk of power cuts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSummer is the season to do power station maintenance. The risk of power outages is high and we are asking all South Africans to switch off all non-essential electrical equipment immediately,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>Eskom spokesperson Hilary Joffe said the maintenance was necessary as some power generating units had tripped and others were not performing well.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s believed Eskom this week had asked its large customers, including municipalities, to decrease power use and switch off as many appliances as possible.<\/p>\n<p>The last time the country experienced serious rolling power outages was in 2008 when there was a high demand for electricity and the national grid was under severe pressure. \u2013 BuaNews<\/p>\n<p><!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetBottom Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetBottom Automatic -->\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africans have been urged to use electricity sparingly and switch off all non-essential appliances as Eskom warns of possible electricity load-shedding that could last until March. While the power utility had not confirmed reports of imminent power outages, it did indicate on its website that there was a risk of power cuts. \u201cSummer is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":[1289,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-6898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mype","8":"tag-port-elizabeth-2","9":"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\/6898","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}