Erwin wants 10% power saving

[bekdik]

http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/Politics/0,,2-7-12_2261620,00.html


Cape Town - Power cuts could be a thing of the past if metropolitan areas cut their electricity usage by 10%, Public Enterprises Minister Alec Erwin said on Wednesday.

Power cuts would be a thing of the past if we had 100% Erwin loss.

[ToxicBunny]

Unfortunately we need... 100% Erwin loss, 100% Phumzile loss, 100% Sonjica loss... oh and a complete purging of the Eskom board of all appointees post 1994.

[Ricard]

Erwin wants a swift smack..

[Skeptik]

Erwin wants a swift smack..LOL
Apparently we need to go to bed earlier.

Wotta Joke.:rolleyes:

[Syndyre]

"Their support was fantastic," said Erwin of Tuesday's meeting.

Well they don't have much option do they?! :mad:

[HavocXphere]

I wish they would STFU with their press releases and spend their time fixing their fvck-ups.

[hashbrown99]

LOL
Apparently we need to go to bed earlier.

Wotta Joke.:rolleyes:

So we "Go to sleep earlier so that you can grow and be cleverer."

She's been sleeping for the last 18 months and it's done nothing for her :rolleyes:

[Gooku]

I think Eskom will have to inform the public peak / off-peak consumption time table (on a 24 hour table)

IMO our only solution to this 5-year problem is to coerce households to use off-peak capacity for heating appliances and spare peak capacity to normalize economic activities.

Many of us will happily comply to switch on geysers only off-peak hours.We need to know exactly what hours national demand is low.

Perhaps we should consider pricing peak(expensive) /off-peak capacity(cheap) differently to encourage consumers to use off-peak capacity. (or dissuade from using peak capacity).

[JBFRobisher]

I think Eskom will have to inform the public peak / off-peak consumption time table (on a 24 hour table)

IMO our only solution to this 5-year problem is to coerce households to use off-peak capacity for heating appliances and spare peak capacity to normalize economic activities.

Many of us will happily comply to switch on geysers only off-peak hours.We need to know exactly what hours national demand is low.

Perhaps we should consider pricing peak(expensive) /off-peak capacity(cheap) differently to encourage consumers to use off-peak capacity. (or dissuade from using peak capacity).

I don't know if this is the right place, but try:

http://www.poweralert.co.za/poweralert3/index.php?location=online

[Moederloos]

Erwin is a 100% loss.

What a moron.

I ask with tears in my eyes how a 10% power saving will make the problems "a thing of the past", when:
1) Our economy is growing and using more power every month
2) They continue to break power stations, and have coal shortages etc.

A 10% saving now, even with 2) taken out of the picture, might just get us to end 2009.
Add 2) into the equation, and it won't get us to June 2008.

African planning:
Have I had lunch yet? No - think as far as lunch. Yes - think as far as sleep when I will "grow cleverer".

Idiots.

[CathJ]

I think Eskom will have to inform the public peak / off-peak consumption time table (on a 24 hour table)

IMO our only solution to this 5-year problem is to coerce households to use off-peak capacity for heating appliances and spare peak capacity to normalize economic activities.

Many of us will happily comply to switch on geysers only off-peak hours.We need to know exactly what hours national demand is low.

Perhaps we should consider pricing peak(expensive) /off-peak capacity(cheap) differently to encourage consumers to use off-peak capacity. (or dissuade from using peak capacity).

While agree, in theory, in practice I'm not home during off-peak hours (except for the middle of the night). Now a geyser I could put on a timer (except I have to pay for an electrician to do that - how about instead of handing out and replacing incandescent light bulbs with CFLs, they go around installing geyser timers for people?), but heavy use things like a washing machine will often have to be used in peak time - simply because there is no automated way to do it in the middle of the day. Peak is peak for a reason...

As you say, though, it depends when peak time actually is.

[bwana]

Erwin wants a swift smack..I'm against the happy slapping (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_slapping) fad as a matter of principle but clearly there is an exception to every rule.

[xrapidx]

Erwin se *

[AutoX]

Erwin is right people, we have to work together now and create a more energy efficient country thus saving more energy so that Eskom has to do less work and get less trouble! (Sarcasm )

[xrapidx]

Have you ever heard of a company telling you to use less of their product?

[Moederloos]

Have you ever heard of a company telling you to use less of their product?

Telkom?
:D

[The_Librarian]

This 10% less power thing of them won't work - new houses, shops, factories etc will wipe that 10% out soon enough :rolleyes:

They dinna smoked blue mushrooms either, wonder if they're from another planet? :confused:

[xrapidx]

Telkom?
:D

Telscum want us to use less of their products? :eek:

They just want us to pay for more of their products. :sick:

[Moederloos]

Telscum want us to use less of their products? :eek:

They just want us to pay for more of their products. :sick:

"abuse", remember - the same word Eskom and the ANC lackeys are now using in regards to power.

[xrapidx]

5#$%$^ I just hit my 3000 post and didnt see which one it was.

[Moederloos]

5#$%$^ I just hit my 3000 post and didnt see which one it was.

lol - I had that on 6000. Then I decided - I will remember 7000, and missed that too!

8000 is close though :D

[ld13]

5#$%$^ I just hit my 3000 post and didnt see which one it was.

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?p=1482641#post1482641

[xrapidx]

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?p=1482641#post1482641

Awww...say it ain't so... why THAT thread.

[ld13]

Awww...say it ain't so... why THAT thread.

I know. :sick: I'm quite sure though :(
Congrats by the way :p

[xrapidx]

LOL ... Thanks

Back OT: The ANC is a complete and utter joke. I quickly shot down to the post office in the Cresta Center to pick up a speed services item, simple task? Not with this governmet, I get there and the ENTIRE shopping mall is without power, all the shops were closed, hairdressers were cutting hair in the walkways, etc. So now I have to take more time of today and try again later.

* the ANC. May they die exceptionally painfull deaths before their trips to hell.

[Moederloos]

LOL ... Thanks

Back OT: The ANC is a complete and utter joke. I quickly shot down to the post office in the Cresta Center to pick up a speed services item, simple task? Not with this governmet, I get there and the ENTIRE shopping mall is without power, all the shops were closed, hairdressers were cutting hair in the walkways, etc. So now I have to take more time of today and try again later.

* the ANC. May they die exceptionally painfull deaths before their trips to hell.

I know the feeling - went out at 6am to draw money from ATM - do not want to play "ATM lottery" with the power outages.
Nice and safe outside a deserted shopping centre at that time, too.....

[The_Librarian]

Nowadays one have to choose one's OTM's more carefully... and the loadshedding doesn't make things easier...

bleh.