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Load Shedding - the all in one thread
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hj2k_x
Honorary Master
They have been scheduling outages for weeks now according to their site, but so far, happily, nothing!
lilDeath
Executive Member
oh yippee, the thread's been revived...
Wonder if 'they' can "sticky" it for us Capies...
Mite need the URL in the future...
Wonder if 'they' can "sticky" it for us Capies...
Mite need the URL in the future...
Load Shedding in Streetlights
Was driving from the East Rand into Jozi last night and I noticed a HUGE number of streetlights that are out.
Now City-Power and its brothers out in the East have been shown to be pretty incompetant recently - but do you think that it is possible that they are actually conciously turning off the streetlights in order to load shed on their networks?
Just a brain fart I had while I was driving - it almost seems to clever for them to have thought of.
Was driving from the East Rand into Jozi last night and I noticed a HUGE number of streetlights that are out.
Now City-Power and its brothers out in the East have been shown to be pretty incompetant recently - but do you think that it is possible that they are actually conciously turning off the streetlights in order to load shed on their networks?
Just a brain fart I had while I was driving - it almost seems to clever for them to have thought of.
stoke
Honorary Master
They probably are, which is the dumbest thing ever, starting those streetlights consumes around 4 hours of running light, so they must turn them off for at least 4 hours to make this a worthwhile exercise.
I'd bet somebody somewhere buggered something up by trying to leech electricity off of the street light circuit.
I'd bet somebody somewhere buggered something up by trying to leech electricity off of the street light circuit.
Overall consumption doesn't really matter though, as long as its not at peak times, if they consume more power during lower demand periods its still better.
stoke
Honorary Master
Gewd point. Lets install big heater's on every street to consume the excess electricity during lower demand periods.
Or .. even better .. lets charge different rates for different times .. na .. too obvious.
Or .. even better .. lets charge different rates for different times .. na .. too obvious.
Moederloos
Honorary Master
lol.
wouldn't be accepted because it might actually solve a few problems. too sensible
Moederloos
Honorary Master
City Power actually has a booklet that indicates tariff amounts for different times in different seasons - however, does this actually work?
Let people hook their geysers and pool pumps to a council suppliedunit that only allows the device to run outside peak hours, and get a saving of 10% on power costs, and people would use it (well, I would).
I really don't know why they don't implement the second one.
I think the main reason is that it would require an upgrade of all the meters. A large portion of JHB is still using the mechanical spinning disk type meter that is not able to differentiate on the usage time. There are new areas that have the electronic meters (generally prepaid users) but i'm not sure if even those meters are capable of time based tarriffs.
Moederloos
Honorary Master
Ambo - while I agree with that, surely it is cheaper to replace the meters than build more stations that are only going to be needed for 4 hours a day?
Not that I am saying we do not need more stations, because we do. However, we should not be funding stations that are only needed because of peak hour demand.
Its still going to be cheaper for the economy and better for everyone than major rolling blackouts and load shedding for the next few years. Government has got us into this mess, now they need to fix it.
Energy South Africa
Had a chat to a senior consultant for our electricity supplier and fact is things are not going to get better in the next 5 to 8 years. Even if we do manage to save power during peak times, our demand growth is exponential and there is no new power being generated. By next year winter the demand will be much higher than this year and loadshedding will take place more regularly - and the next year more etc etc... On that first cold night a few weeks ago South Africa was on the verge of a NATIONAL Blackout as the whole grid almost collapsed...
Had a chat to a senior consultant for our electricity supplier and fact is things are not going to get better in the next 5 to 8 years. Even if we do manage to save power during peak times, our demand growth is exponential and there is no new power being generated. By next year winter the demand will be much higher than this year and loadshedding will take place more regularly - and the next year more etc etc... On that first cold night a few weeks ago South Africa was on the verge of a NATIONAL Blackout as the whole grid almost collapsed...
They definitely need to build more power stations, and quickly. Stop propping up Zim with power as well. The incompetence amazes me though. What almost triggered the collapse, excess demand?