{"id":6914,"date":"2012-01-10T20:33:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T18:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/s-africas-eskom-warns-power-supply-extremely-tight\/"},"modified":"2012-01-10T20:33:12","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T18:33:12","slug":"s-africas-eskom-warns-power-supply-extremely-tight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africas-eskom-warns-power-supply-extremely-tight\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa&#8217;s Eskom warns power supply extremely tight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Planned maintenance, unplanned outages hit supply<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Some 12 pct of supply of 41,000 MW out for maintenance<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Jan 10 (Reuters) &#8211; South African utility<br \/>\nEskom warned this week that supply of electricity will<br \/>\nbe extremely tight in January after the power firm took down<br \/>\nmore plants to conduct maintenance and supply had also been hit<br \/>\nby unplanned outages.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The national grid nearly collapsed in early 2008, forcing<br \/>\nmines and smelters to shut for days and costing Africa&#8217;s biggest<br \/>\neconomy billions of dollars in lost output.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>While there were no planned blackouts for now, Eskom has<br \/>\nasked consumers, especially energy-intensive industrial users,<br \/>\nto reduce demand to ease the strain on the power system.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a challenging week and it will probably be a<br \/>\nchallenging month,&#8221; spokeswoman Hilary Joffe said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>She said that some 12 percent of South Africa&#8217;s total supply<br \/>\nof around 41,000 megawatts (MW) were down for planned<br \/>\nmaintenance.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to catch up on the backlog and not defer any<br \/>\nscheduled maintenance,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>On top of that, supply had also been hit by unplanned<br \/>\noutages and underperforming plants, she added.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Planned maintenance, unplanned outages hit supply * Some 12 pct of supply of 41,000 MW out for maintenance JOHANNESBURG Jan 10 (Reuters) &#8211; South African utility Eskom warned this week that supply of electricity will be extremely tight in January after the power firm took down more plants to conduct maintenance and supply had [&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-6914","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\/6914","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=6914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}