{"id":110404,"date":"2014-09-23T07:10:20","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T05:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=110404"},"modified":"2014-09-23T07:11:59","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T05:11:59","slug":"power-will-be-tight-eskom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/110404-power-will-be-tight-eskom.html","title":{"rendered":"Power will be tight: Eskom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The power system was expected to be stable but tight during the evening peak over the course of the week, Eskom said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mild temperatures are forecasted for the next few days. Demand is expected to be lower on Wednesday, due to the public holiday,&#8221; Eskom said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, available capacity to meet peak evening demand was 34,508 megawatts (MW), with demand forecast at 31,798 MW. Planned maintenance stood at 3303 MW and unplanned outages were at 5651 MW.<\/p>\n<p>Estimated available peak evening demand capacity, and estimated demand for the rest of the week was as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tuesday: Available capacity was 32,207 MW while demand was forecast at 30,700 MW<\/li>\n<li>Wednesday: Available capacity was 32,398 MW while demand was forecast at 29,135 MW<\/li>\n<li>Thursday: Available capacity was 32,218 MW while demand was forecast at 31,840 MW<\/li>\n<li>Friday: Available capacity was 32,218 MW while demand was forecast at 30,135 MW<\/li>\n<li>Saturday: Available capacity was 32,218 MW while demand was forecast at 29,144 MW<\/li>\n<li>Sunday: Available capacity was 32,218 MW while demand was forecast at 29,208 MW<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All available capacity included open cycle gas turbines.<\/p>\n<p>Eskom called on all South Africans to pull together and use electricity sparingly.<\/p>\n<p>Tips to reduce electricity consumption included switching off geysers, pool pumps, and non-essential lights, and efficiently using air-conditioners by keeping room temperature at 23 degrees Celsius.<\/p>\n<p>Eskom also called on the public to respond to alerts that were broadcast on television each evening.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Eskom news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/government\/109942-more-power-cuts-on-the-way-eskom.html\">More power cuts on the way: Eskom<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/government\/109828-cabinet-approves-more-eskom-funding.html\">Cabinet approves more Eskom funding<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/109076-reduce-your-power-demand-help-eskom-cape-chamber.html\">Reduce your power demand, help Eskom: Cape Chamber<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The power system was expected to be stable but tight during the evening peak over the course of the week, Eskom said on Monday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[36,181,819],"class_list":["post-110404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-active","tag-eskom","tag-power-supply"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110404"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}