Poweralert Stage 3 (old news)

[wingnut771]

Thermal gen 20.4GW at 5am, 15.6GW at 10am and 20.9GW at 7pm.

 

[Lupus]

I don't call myself wingnut for nothing

Think we should hand the title over to you...

ESKOM defender even though you do the oppposite

 

[Lupus]

 

[Lupus]

Wait think this one is more accurate

 

[Lupus]

Last one, though my hair isn't that long nor my beard that gray.

 

[Lupus]

Two years ago, this might have caused an issue

https://twitter.com/x/status/2111116646815301785

 

[wingnut771]

Two years ago, this might have caused an issue

https://twitter.com/x/status/2111116646815301785

Didn't unit 1 trip in august aswell?

 

[Lupus]

Didn't unit 1 trip in august aswell?
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Yup, it's going to have issues until April/May

 

[wingnut771]

Yup, it's going to have issues until April/May

What's the issue besides a clogged filter of herpes?

 

[Lupus]

What's the issue besides a clogged filter of herpes?

That apparently caused issues

 

[HAL 9000]

Meanwhile, back over in Sri Lanka...

Sri Lanka’s 22 million people hit by six-hour blackout as grid shuts down - IOL News​

Sri Lanka suffered a six-hour nationwide electricity blackout on Saturday after the national grid tripped, possibly because solar power generation exceeded consumption, officials said.

The country was without grid power from around noon until dusk, when supplies were restored in stages across the island of 22 million people, the state electricity authority said.

Energy Minister Anura Karunathilaka said the cause of the major breakdown was still under investigation, but engineers suspected an imbalance caused by high solar power generation while demand was muted on a weekend holiday.

The system was restored after authorities made repeated appeals to rooftop solar system owners to disconnect their systems to help stabilise the grid.

The entire grid shut down in February 2025, when solar power generation exceeded consumption on a bright, sunny Sunday. It took more than six hours to restore supplies at the time.

Sri Lanka has an installed solar power capacity of just over 3,000 megawatts, while daytime demand ranges from 2,000 to 2,500 megawatts.

Tax concessions have encouraged consumers to switch to solar and sell their surplus electricity to the grid, creating imbalances that the utility provider is struggling to manage.

The government aims to increase solar power generation capacity to nearly 4,400 megawatts within three years, a 388 percent increase from 2024.

Sri Lanka’s 22 million people hit by six-hour blackout as grid shuts down

Sri Lanka restored power after a six-hour nationwide blackout, with officials investigating whether excess solar generation destabilised the grid.

iol.co.za

 

[Gordon_R]

Meanwhile, back over in Sri Lanka...

Sri Lanka’s 22 million people hit by six-hour blackout as grid shuts down - IOL News​

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Sri Lanka’s 22 million people hit by six-hour blackout as grid shuts down

Sri Lanka restored power after a six-hour nationwide blackout, with officials investigating whether excess solar generation destabilised the grid.

iol.co.za

Ah, IOL, that bastion of factual information! (/s) Google returns very few news articles, which to me suggests that the underlying facts are not clear, and the headline may be confusing cause and effects. Other sources suggest that the grid instability was caused by a previous fault at a hydropower installation, while the excess solar prevented recovery from the instability. See:
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com...pts-electricity/amp_articleshow/135011960.cms

The cause of the islandwide outage was not immediately clear, although the government said a failure at a hydropower station in the central hill country, detected a day earlier, could have contributed to it.