"Firstly, load-shedding is bad. It's terrible. Stage 6 is devastating" - minister

"However, when asked whether the scenario mentioned above is what South Africans will face this winter, he said government and Eskom are discussing interventions to prevent such a situation."

I was almost worried there for a moment, but they're discussing interventions, guys.
No need to worry... definitely the kind of problem you can discuss out of existence.
 
I (probably many of us) knew diesel a la "keep the lights on" was the plan.

Of course this time there will be no keeping the lights on. They'll be burning Eskom budget money, they'll harm the coal fleet further and further by running them hotter than they can tolerate, they'll bailout Eskom again and again with public money (no matter what they say), the price of diesel will rise and make everything more expensive. The ANC will profit tremendously. And we'll still be expected to function under the electricity availability conditions of a Bangladesh slum. Countrywide. Or worse. Economy more and more F'd.

After winter Eskom will likely be a wreck if you ask me. It's only somewhat banged up right now, but still able to sort of move on wonky wheels.

Any way they can convince the voting public to vote for them in one more election. Another term without accountability is worth more billions, and if they believe it's their last then probably many billions as they pull a Gupta and flee after stealing everything not nailed down. While those with a taste for ruling in a despotic shithole bunker down and turn this country into another failed African state where only the ones in charge can afford to eat anything but dirt.
 
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If you have continuous Stage 6, then there is no benefit to turning off geysers because when are they supposed to heat up?

I can only see some advantage at "peak" time for 4 hours from 5pm to 9pm but then you have to switch them on eventually.

Ripple relays only make sense if you are on lower stages of loadshedding and not during the day.
 
The Trutherizer said:
I (probably many of us) knew diesel a la "keep the lights on" was the plan.

Of course this time there will be no keeping the lights on. They'll be burning Eskom budget money, they'll harm the coal fleet further and further by running them hotter than they can tolerate, they'll bailout Eskom again and again with public money (no matter what they say), the price of diesel will rise and make everything more expensive. The ANC will profit tremendously. And we'll still be expected to function under the electricity availability conditions of a Bangladesh slum. Countrywide. Or worse. Economy more and more F'd.

After winter Eskom will likely be a wreck if you ask me. It's only somewhat banged up right now, but still able to sort of move on wonky wheels.

Any way they can convince the voting public to vote for them in one more election. Another term without accountability is worth more billions, and if they believe it's their last then probably many billions as they pull a Gupta and flee after stealing everything not nailed down. While those with a taste for ruling in a despotic shithole bunker down and turn this country into another failed African state where only the ones in charge can afford to eat anything but dirt.
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African solutions to African problems, we were warned..
 
Don't worry. They could have the grid stable and functioning by December if they wanted to...
 
B-1 said:
Shooting from the hip is what they do. They heard about geyser ripple relays and now that's the next big saviour.
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Its pointless anyway, by the time they roll out anything (to reduce demand like ripple) in the next 3 years country has either collapsed or loadshedding is resolved, no middle ground lol
 
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4 people out of my team of 10 have immigrated to the UK in the last year. All young professionals in mid 20s. Just got news this morning that another one is leaving.
 
Yea the only real solution is to leave

The fleet is getting older and whatever they are adding is reliability wise at the same level as the old ****

The population is still growing
so essentially there should always be projects at different phases ie some just starting as others are finishing amd some midway

There is nothing

And we get gradual changes to hide the degredation softly inbetween the big blows

ie take the 30switch over introduction

which imo is an indicator that we should already be on stage 7 and this helps hide it

ie 1 has to switch off and the other can only switch on when the other has switched off , that was the notion we were meant to believe is the idea of the 30min extension ?

show of hands whose municipality is late with switch off?

and yet just before things get worse the switch on tends to be slower getting it closer to that 2:30min

ie they have for a short period 2 municipalities off easing demand even more

I may be seeing correlation where there is none , we are creatures. That love to see correlation :) count the hits ignore the misses
 
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4 people out of my team of 10 have immigrated to the UK in the last year. All young professionals in mid 20s. Just got news this morning that another one is leaving.
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I think if you are a young person (or old for that matter!) and are able to leave, you should.
Its going to take many, many years before (if) anything good ever happens here...
Until the ANC is removed totally from the system, nothing will change and life will continue to worsen.
Kyk noord...
 
mojoman said:
I think if you are a young person and are able to leave, you should.
Its going to take many, many years before (if) anything good ever happens here...
Until the ANC is removed totally from the system, nothing will change and life will continue to worsen.
Kyk noord...
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The worst is you get families that want to guilt trip their kids into not leaving
 
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