Article: Dramatically reduce electricity usage to avoid blackouts - Eskom

kingdong said:
I'm surprised there hasn't been a hacker out there who has cracked the prepaid electricity algorithm and created a key generator to generate 16-digit electricity token codes for pre-paid electricity meters yet.

With such a keygen this person could send a copy to Eskom HQ, informing them it will be released to the public through viral means if they dont get their act together. LOL
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16 digit? Isn't it 20? I know with the STS Prepaid meters each meter has it's own key so if you cracked one, it doesn't necessarily mean you've cracked them all. Would be easier to steal a vending unit but they're all online so there goes that idea.
 
grantza said:
it burns my arse when we are reminded to cut our use even more when i drive home & see places like Canal Walk shopping center & SABC on beach road are lit up like lighthouses at 2 in the morning but are devoid of human life inside
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We have the toll road gantries lit up.
 
This country is driving me up the walls, I swear!
:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

Drove around all morning looking for a fuel station that has Unleaded 95, shortages probably due to the massive fuel price hike due to Government's screw ups.
Traffic from the North to the South in Joburg has become a nightmare, literally overnight. Tolls roads made no difference.
Get to work to find a nice levy statement, R700 electricity for someone who lives alone, uses one light, never cooks and has a PC and TV running at night.
When I get home this afternoon chances are my electricity will be out again since it seems power cuts are back in the Randburg region.

I feel like murdering someone.
:twisted::twisted::twisted:
 
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Guys, I just want to point out something to the people who are complaining about the offices and malls being lit up like christmas trees at 2am.

There is plenty of spare capacity at 2am, even at 10pm. The only times Eskom feel the pinch is from 5am to 9am and from 5pm to 9pm. This is when the demand reaches those peak numbers they keep reporting on.

At 2am, the demand is less than half of the total power station capacity available.

Have a look here to confirm what I am saying in the graphs:

www.poweralert.co.za

What we actually need is a way to spread the demand during the peak times of 5-9am and 5-9pm. This is when Eskom came up with that nonsense about "saving money" by turning off your geyser. Actually what you are doing is turning of the geyser during those peak periods when they are squeezed for capacity.

So if you really want to help out, turn off your geyser from 5-9 twice a day. You can use what you like after those times.
 
Those graphs are a load of poppycock if you ask me....

Look at the last little red bar between 20:30 and 21:00.... its lower than the last orange bar between 18:30 and 19:00....
 
Gaz{M} said:
Guys, I just want to point out something to the people who are complaining about the offices and malls being lit up like christmas trees at 2am.

There is plenty of spare capacity at 2am, even at 10pm. The only times Eskom feel the pinch is from 5am to 9am and from 5pm to 9pm. This is when the demand reaches those peak numbers they keep reporting on.

At 2am, the demand is less than half of the total power station capacity available.

Have a look here to confirm what I am saying in the graphs:

www.poweralert.co.za

What we actually need is a way to spread the demand during the peak times of 5-9am and 5-9pm. This is when Eskom came up with that nonsense about "saving money" by turning off your geyser. Actually what you are doing is turning of the geyser during those peak periods when they are squeezed for capacity.

So if you really want to help out, turn off your geyser from 5-9 twice a day. You can use what you like after those times.
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But Eksdom are always telling us to save electricity. So they could take that electricity that is being used a 2am and put it a big box that could then be used when the 'pinch' is being felt.

Somehow, I suspect you can't save electricity.
 
Ok guys we are not gonna progress and expand our capacity to keep up with demand, you guys can just eat your bread as is instead of toasting it.

And sorry that means you will unfortunately kinda be prohibited from having children as this will eventually lead to more houses being built, and more houses need more electricity. As we have already stated, the electricity demand increasing is not acceptable.

Long and the short : IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO ENSURE THAT OUR ELECTRICITY SUPPLY IS ALWAYS MORE THAN THE DEMAND.

ke yona, welcome to south africa, where the limit's the sky. So many possibilities ! Ayoba, how can you not be proud of this !
 
Fudzy said:
They went the other way, to save costs they blew up a couple.

I wonder how much the electrification project has cost Eksom?
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:D

They had to know that they will have to build more stations to supply the electrification. Surely someone had to have a brain, Or is this just a classic case of Ineptocracy.
 
Mila said:
Or is this just a classic case of Ineptocracy.
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I'm gonna be called racist for this but is it any coincidence that Eskom was the country's BEE flagship? Remember the experienced white people being replaced by people with no experience in the name of transformation? Seems they were so intent on transformation they completely neglected their core business. Look what that got us, huge increases & still not enough electricity.

Johannesburg - State-owned power utility Eskom paid executive committee members 109% more than they were paid last year, according to its financial statements for the year ended March 31. Eskom's directors' remuneration report reveals that R18.5m was paid to executive committee members, compared to last year's R8.8m. The biggest winner was human resources head Bhabhalazi Bulunga, who pocketed 507% more at R3m, compared to last year's R501 000.
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Explain that to me Eskom .. you double your exec's salaries in the wake of your bailout only to come knocking with the begging bowl again a year later?

Please forgive me when I say fsck you, I can (still) afford to pay for what I use so go and save your own electricity.

How much are you owed by Soweto, we know in 2007 is was billions!

In the only figures available from Eskom from 2007, Soweto residents owed the parastatal R1.78 billion, with a payment level of 24 percent.
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Fcking incompetents.
 
Albereth said:
They could turn the Gautrain off - and we could quite easily go back to how we did things before it.
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The Gautrain uses a miniscule amount of power.
If all the trains were accelerating at maximum power at the same time they'd use about 28.8MW according to this article: http://donnedwards.openaccess.co.za/2008/01/gautrain-doesnt-use-electricity-really.html

Eskom's peak generation capacity was 32954 MW on the 17th Jan 2012 which means that the Gautrain would only use 0.087% of Eskom's generation capacity using the absolute worst case scenario.
 
Paul_S said:
The Gautrain uses a miniscule amount of power.
If all the trains were accelerating at maximum power at the same time they'd use about 28.8MW according to this article: http://donnedwards.openaccess.co.za/2008/01/gautrain-doesnt-use-electricity-really.html

Eskom's peak generation capacity was 32954 MW on the 17th Jan 2012 which means that the Gautrain would only use 0.087% of Eskom's generation capacity using the absolute worst case scenario.
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Yeah - but the point is that it is a 'saving'.

If it was up to me I'd be shutting off power lines heading into neighbouring states and and canning any below cost contracts.

There would be a lot of noise about the train not being there but the number of people that it services is really miniscule.
 
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