{"id":473549,"date":"2022-12-10T14:15:19","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T12:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=473549"},"modified":"2022-12-10T14:15:56","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T12:15:56","slug":"eskom-implements-stage-5-indefinitely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/energy\/473549-eskom-implements-stage-5-indefinitely.html","title":{"rendered":"Eskom implements Stage 5 load-shedding indefinitely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom has escalated the level of load-shedding to Stage 5 indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>The previous plan had been to move South Africa down to Stage 2 load-shedding on Sunday, but due to further complications, this no longer seems likely.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Due to unusually high demand and the breakdown of a generating unit each at Hendrina, Kendal and Kriel power stations, load-shedding has unfortunately been escalated to Stage 5 until further notice,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Eskom_SA\/status\/1601537400337207297\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>said Eskom in a tweet.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The energy provider added that Koeberg Unit 1 has been taken offline this morning for planned refuelling and routine maintenance, which adds to the amount of unavailable power.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Eskom will give a full update in due course,&#8221; said the power utility.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">2\/2 Koeberg Unit 1 has been taken offline this morning for planned refuelling and routine maintenance.<br \/>\nEskom will give a full update in due course.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eskom Hld SOC Ltd (@Eskom_SA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Eskom_SA\/status\/1601537400337207297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 10, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/energy\/473425-why-eskoms-power-stations-keep-breaking-down.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Why Eskom\u2019s power stations keep breaking down<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom has escalated the level of load-shedding to Stage 5 indefinitely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":441748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27995],"tags":[181,35,8487,81460],"class_list":["post-473549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-eskom","tag-headline","tag-load-shedding","tag-stage-5-load-shedding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473549"}],"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\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}