Eskom does not expect winter load-shedding in South Africa

wingnut771 said:
April has been a **** month:
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I used to average 12kWh a day over summer. Now I am half of that. Hitting 6kWh a day consumption. Pool only running long enough to keep the water clear which fortunately in cloudy weather, it doesnt go green even with limited run time.

Its funny how obvious it is to see when the oven gets used. Just these big spikes on the graph. On this past Saturday, I had hit 6kWh on the kitchen alone with using the oven. Ran for 3 hours give or take.

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Haven't we heard this before where they say one thing and then are shocked when said thing happens that they said would never....
 
TipCy said:
Haven't we heard this before where they say one thing and then are shocked when said thing happens that they said would never....
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We didn't have it after September when they said this right?
 
We have had spells of load reduction...but people will say that reduction and shedding aren't the same thing...we hope for the best, either way, time will tell
 
TipCy said:
We have had spells of load reduction...but people will say that reduction and shedding aren't the same thing...we hope for the best, either way, time will tell
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Reduction is not shedding, reduction is in areas where people do not pay and is basically either you pay or you get 14 hours of free power.
 
Lupus said:
Reduction is not shedding, reduction is in areas where people do not pay and is basically either you pay or you get 14 hours of free power.
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Reduction and shedding serve the same function of reducing strain on the grid/transformer. reduction just targets high density low income areas, and there are some people in those areas who pay for their power. only those with illegal connections get 14 hours of free power.
 
TipCy said:
Reduction and shedding server the same function of reducing strain on the grid/transformer. reduction just targets high density low income areas, and there are some people in those areas who pay for their power. only those with illegal connections get 14 hours of free power.
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Nope they don't. Last time I checked high paying areas do not have any reduction, while they did get shedding. When under 20% of your customers pay and the grid is constrained Eskom comes along and reduces the load for you, other wise the grid goes down and you have no power for longer than 5 hours. Plus without paying customers the drive or need for them to replace that expensive transformer goes down even more.
So either you accept load reduction, or you get more people paying.
Load shedding is when they need to bring down demand for a vast majority to prevent the entire grid going down, which would require a black start and could take two weeks and it would be entire country, not just the free loaders.
 
The reason they don't reduce high paying areas is because of the number of connections to transformers is balanced, you can and still do have some people in affluent areas who bridge their connections and don't pay for electricity. The main issues here is density, there are a lot more illegal connections than the transformer can handle in low income areas. Hence your point why they target those areas, to protect their equipment from needing replacement.

I or anyone who pays for their part of electricity are not a revenue service that collects money on behalf of the service provider. it's just an easy way to punish the few for the bulk of those who don't pay in low income areas.
 
Oh don't worry the loadshedding now comes from municipality. They don't keep up with maintenance and there is multiday neighborhood outages.
 
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