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    Crackdown in Johannesburg hits MTN, Absa, WeBuyCars, Jeep, Dis-Chem, and Engen

    I am sure it is about the money, but if you look at most of the pictures in the article, many of them are illegal scaffolding structures that is close to the roads. They all seemed sturdy, but none of it isregulated
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    Crackdown in Johannesburg hits MTN, Absa, WeBuyCars, Jeep, Dis-Chem, and Engen

    That is fair enough, but my big problem is the one on the M1 with the bright screen. I have to look away from traffic sometimes when that bright white advert comes on. Can't be really safe in my opinion.
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    New iOS and iPadOS adds keyboards for South African languages

    Nice, hopefully this will stop the auto correcting to Dutch from Afrikaans words. We probably broke the Dutch dictiory by keeping correcting the Dutch words.
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    South Africans saving on electricity bills with IHP geysers

    Mine has been on my roof since 2010 and I barely use any electricity to heat water. The higher my water temperature is at night the larger the temperature drop off over night. For me it is anything from 2-7 degrees depending on the starting temperature. Winter my drop is actually less because...
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    South Africans saving on electricity bills with IHP geysers

    I moved my geyser outside when I went for the evacuated tube solar geyser as my previous geyser burst and flood the whole room below causing a large amount of damage. What exactly is your concern for the downside? The only thing I can think of is the aesthetic and longer time the hot water...
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    Gautrain taking on Bolt and Uber in South Africa

    This seems good. Hope the discount is significant. The biggest problem for me was how to get from my house to the Gautrain and where I would want to go after as the busses almost never covered where I wanted to go. I have never taken a Gautrain bus yet. Also uber is cheaper than the meter...
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    New ZA plug standard progressing well — industry

    I have already replaced all my old 3 pin sockets with these. They are in my opinion just better and reduces clutter for all my appliances. It looks much neater and cleaner overall. My entertainment console area has one socket that can take 6 plugs, all without needing a multi-plug. I did keep...
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    Medium solar system advice (16kW inverter, 3x5.12kWh batteries, 10x 605w panels)

    In this case I would have gone with larger inverter and 2 batteries and add the additional panels. I know the sun profile is better in Gauteng during winter, but in the WC I sometimes do get days in the winter where I don't charge my 10kW fully and my solar array is larger than what you want to...
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    Medium solar system advice (16kW inverter, 3x5.12kWh batteries, 10x 605w panels)

    That is quite a big system I will say. I have a 8kW Inverter and that runs everything I need. I do have a solar geyser though and gas stove. I would max out the panels first, because that is the most expensive to install and it doesn't change much with extra panels. If you add it later you...
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    South Africa has not experienced load-shedding in a year, primarily due to the proliferation of private power generation

    So we have 27GW of solar? How is that 19GW sold, to Eskom or mines etc. Does it reduce capacity or is the capacity reduction mainly rooftop solar and factory closures etc?
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    South Africa’s new sockets and plugs - All the details

    I had my av receiver/playstation/apple tv/sub/nas/tv/battery backup (wifi router and another device) plugged into this: https://www.livecopper.co.za/products/cbi-pvc-6-x-slimline-socket If you want it hidden in a cabinet you can maybe look at these...
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    South Africa is 10 days away from avoiding load-shedding for an entire year

    That is not the point, the point is even if we assume a full allocation (which it almost certainly won't be), our demand is similar or less now than when we had our highest ever peak demand. We can't know what it is unless we have the ability to measure what is generated behind the meter...
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    South Africa is 10 days away from avoiding load-shedding for an entire year

    Yes, he was asking if the 28-30GW peak demand was really our peak demand. I said yes it is our peak demand from the grid and worst case 37GW would be the peak electricity demand if we assume all 7GW is available at our peak demand time. And that that worst case demand is less than the peak...
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    South Africa is 10 days away from avoiding load-shedding for an entire year

    That post wasn't to say that all the 7GW is demand, it was to say that 28-30GW is the demand on the grid, and the maximum total demand would be the +7GW case. I am sure not all of that is battery backed up, but our demand hasn't been growing and even this maximum theoretical value is less than...
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    South Africa is 10 days away from avoiding load-shedding for an entire year

    Our demand from the grid is 28-30GW, but we have more than 7GW behind the meter installations which means our total electricity peak demand might be 35-37GW. Also remember that in most first world countries electricity demand went down the last 20-30 or so years because of more efficient...
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