{"id":350,"date":"2024-05-12T05:53:40","date_gmt":"2024-05-12T03:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/?p=350"},"modified":"2024-05-12T05:53:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T03:53:40","slug":"eskom-insists-power-cuts-break-is-due-to-enough-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/?p=350","title":{"rendered":"Eskom insists power cuts break is due to enough capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom is denying that it&#8217;s spending billions of rand to burn diesel to avoid power cuts. The country has enjoyed over a month without rolling blackouts. Some believe that the reprieve in power cuts is an electioneering stunt by the governing party.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The power utility&#8217;s former boss, Andre de Ruyter, recently said the power cuts break is due to Eskom burning diesel \u201cat a rate of knots.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But in a statement, Eskom has attributed the continuous suspension to sufficient generation capacity and improvements in energy availability factor &#8212; among other issues. The power utility has dismissed media reports, saying it&#8217;s monitoring its Open-Cycle Gas Turbines usage. Source &#8211; Enca<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom is denying that it&#8217;s spending billions of rand to burn diesel to avoid power<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352,"href":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions\/352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}