{"id":42751,"date":"2012-02-03T12:35:13","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T10:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=42751"},"modified":"2012-02-03T12:36:50","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T10:36:50","slug":"power-supply-remains-tight-despite-progress-eskom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/42751-power-supply-remains-tight-despite-progress-eskom.html","title":{"rendered":"Power supply remains tight despite progress &#8211; Eskom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Eskom\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/313497-Eskom\">Eskom<\/a> is making progress with its planned maintenance programme but the supply system remains tight, the parastatal said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The power supply capacity to meet Friday evening&#8217;s peak demand was 32,513 megawatts (MW), more than the forecast 30,715 MW, Eskom said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>It said current planned maintenance stood at 4,845 MW and unplanned outages were 5,639 MW.<\/p>\n<p>Peak demand for the rest of the week was forecast at: 29,385 MW on Saturday, 29,104 MW on Sunday, 31,337 MW on Monday, 31,376 MW on Tuesday, 31,454 MW on Wednesday, and 31,265 MW on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We urge all South Africans to partner with us to keep the lights on and save 10 percent of their electricity usage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This will make it significantly easier to manage the power system during this challenging time, while also enabling us to do planned maintenance to ensure the reliability of our plant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Eskom said it would release a power supply update twice a week to keep citizens informed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom is making progress with its planned maintenance programme but the supply system remains tight<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":42671,"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":[36,181,8487,7935],"class_list":["post-42751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-active","tag-eskom","tag-load-shedding","tag-rolling-blackouts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42751"}],"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=42751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42753,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42751\/revisions\/42753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}