Blackouts, Friday 19 June 2015: Stage 1 from 5-10pm

[savage]

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[Scooby_Doo]

Not for Cape Town

"Stage 1 loadshedding will be avoided due to the City having spare generation capacity available."

 

[Johnatan56]

Not for Cape Town

"Stage 1 loadshedding will be avoided due to the City having spare generation capacity available."

Does this also apply to direct eskom customers within cape town?

 

[Scooby_Doo]

Does this also apply to direct eskom customers within cape town?

I doubt they can differentiate, so should be for all.

 

[Dan C]

Nice , Friday night from 8pm - 10pm :twisted:

 

[Splice]

Not for Cape Town

"Stage 1 loadshedding will be avoided due to the City having spare generation capacity available."

So why did the *****s not do this last night when I had loadshedding!

 

[Scooby_Doo]

So why did the *****s not do this last night when I had loadshedding!

It did, they reduce the hours from 4 to 2. You were in zone 6 which unfortunately got nailed.

 

[vaakseun]

Does this also apply to direct eskom customers within cape town?

No.

 

[Alton Turner Blackwood]

Does this also apply to direct eskom customers within cape town?

We will find out in a couple of minutes...

 

[Fulcrum29]

Do this include all districts in the CoCT?

 

[Alton Turner Blackwood]

We will find out in a couple of minutes...

Mine just went off. CT, Eskom fed

 

[Scooby_Doo]

Mine just went off. CT, Eskom fed

 

[vaakseun]

Do this include all districts in the CoCT?

Yes. As long as the city itself supplies your electricity.

 

[Fulcrum29]

Yes.

I will see about Strand/Somerset-West... Gordon's Bay and Sir Lowry's is Eskom.

 

[vaakseun]

I will see about Strand/Somerset-West... Gordon's Bay and Sir Lowry's is Eskom.

Ironic because Gordon's Bay and Sir Lowry's is right next to the city's magical new power source, yet they don't benefit from it.

Strand/Somerset-West is city fed.

 

[Alton Turner Blackwood]

I will see about Strand/Somerset-West... Gordon's Bay and Sir Lowry's is Eskom.

Then it will definitely go off. I also thought the City would be able to manage mine. It went off smack-bang at 5 (I have the 1600 to 1830 slot today)

 

[Gordon_R]

Ironic because Gordon's Bay and Sir Lowry's is right next to the city's magical new power source, yet they don't benefit from it.

It's not new (completed in 1979), but the Steenbras pumped storage is magical at a time like this...

 

[vaakseun]

It's not new (completed in 1979), but the Steenbras pumped storage is magical at a time like this...

I know, but why have they only recently started using it? Was it being upgraded/refurbished 'till now or is the good rains only making it economically viable now?

 

[Gordon_R]

I know, but why have they only recently started using it? Was it being upgraded/refurbished 'till now or is the good rains only making it economically viable now?

AFAIK Steenbras pumped storage has always been in use (and always owned by Co-CT), and uses no 'net' water (day/night are balanced). I assume it has become more noteworthy, because Cape Town (and Joburg) are allowed to set their load shedding priorities within an overall Eskom target. The same applies to major industrial users who have co-generating facilities. Other towns without such load balancing capacity don't have this luxury.

 

[Fulcrum29]

Power is still on in Strand/Somerset West. Good, CoCT sticking to their word.