{"id":3218,"date":"2008-03-18T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-03-18T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T19:00:00","slug":"eskom-wants-53-rate-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/3218-eskom-wants-53-rate-hike.html","title":{"rendered":"Eskom wants 53% rate hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It said it had received the application earlier on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Eskom was seeking this in place of the 14.2% increase it was granted in December last year. <\/p>\n<p>Eskom had said it wanted the figure revised because of &quot;increased primary energy costs&quot; and &quot;accelerated demand side management&quot; costs. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;In the light of the current electricity supply shortage and load shedding in the country, the energy regulator will give urgent attention to Eskom&#39;s application and make its decision after following due process,&quot; Nersa said. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=110455\">Discuss this article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom has applied for a 53% hike in tariffs, the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[],"class_list":["post-3218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}