Cape Town beats load shedding

[Alton Turner Blackwood]

This sucks! I live in Gotdon's bay and we fall under Eskom, not City of Cape Town. I am less than 2 km from the Steenbras Power Station, and yet, we were load shed on Saterday! Bastards!

I share your pain.

I demand equal treatment dammit

 

[rodmur]

Joburg do it all day every day

 

[vaakseun]

This sucks! I live in Gotdon's bay and we fall under Eskom, not City of Cape Town. I am less than 2 km from the Steenbras Power Station, and yet, we were load shed on Saterday! Bastards!

But your power is cheaper because you don't pay the municipal markup. Fair is fair.

 

[mmacleod]

But your power is cheaper because you don't pay the municipal markup. Fair is fair.

Hrm no, also in Gordons Bay it isn't as simple as that. We pay City of Cape town rates but Eskom controls our load shedding for some or other reason, basically what I take away from this (and various other things) is that City of Cape town sees this part of the Cape (Helderberg) as a nice cash cow but doesn't like to spend any of the money or effort here...

 

[chicken247]

Hrm no, also in Gordons Bay it isn't as simple as that. We pay City of Cape town rates but Eskom controls our load shedding for some or other reason, basically what I take away from this (and various other things) is that City of Cape town sees this part of the Cape (Helderberg) as a nice cash cow but doesn't like to spend any of the money or effort here...

It is all farce, visited a birthday @ a plant and .5 of the lights were burning, plus the *******s were venting steam the whole weekend! sorry 4 the spelling, the mushrooms aRE kicking in.

 

[vaakseun]

Hrm no, also in Gordons Bay it isn't as simple as that. We pay City of Cape town rates but Eskom controls our load shedding for some or other reason, basically what I take away from this (and various other things) is that City of Cape town sees this part of the Cape (Helderberg) as a nice cash cow but doesn't like to spend any of the money or effort here...

Rates and electricity are two completely separate entities.

It is all farce, visited a birthday @ a plant and .5 of the lights were burning, plus the *******s were venting steam the whole weekend! sorry 4 the spelling, the mushrooms aRE kicking in.

:wtf:

 

[mmacleod]

Rates and electricity are two completely separate entities.

COCT rates as in - "rate: a fixed charge per unit of quantity", not rates as in "taxes"

There are areas of the country where electricity is bought directly from Eskom at pricing/rates Eskom decides (e.g. Table View), and then there are areas where it is bought from the muncipality e.g. COCT at the pricing/rates which the muncipality decides (usually a much larger markup).

So in Gordons Bay (and rest of Helderberg) we buy from COCT at the huge markup (not directly from Eskom) - but when it comes to load shedding we are treated as if we buy directly from Eskom... Basically we are getting shafted.

 

[vaakseun]

COCT rates as in - "rate: a fixed charge per unit of quantity", not rates as in "taxes"

There are areas of the country where electricity is bought directly from Eskom at pricing/rates Eskom decides (e.g. Table View), and then there are areas where it is bought from the muncipality e.g. COCT at the pricing/rates which the muncipality decides (usually a much larger markup).

So in Gordons Bay (and rest of Helderberg) we buy from COCT at the huge markup (not directly from Eskom) - but when it comes to load shedding we are treated as if we buy directly from Eskom... Basically we are getting shafted.

Ah, I see. So in other words you receive a monthly electricity bill from the City of Cape Town?

That is unfortunate then.

 

[mmacleod]

Ah, I see. So in other words you receive a monthly electricity bill from the City of Cape Town?
That is unfortunate then.

Well it is pretty much all prepaid this side of the world, but yes same effect

 

[voipnow]

If you want to see a wiki of Sa's power stations just google enipedia sandbox . This will take you to a map of the world. Selt which ever country you are intrested in and " hay presto " you can get to see some facts.

Unfortunately the informatio is only as good as the combined contributions of persons who take time to update the info. but this is still the most acurate source of info on power stations.

 

[Fulcrum29]

COCT rates as in - "rate: a fixed charge per unit of quantity", not rates as in "taxes"

There are areas of the country where electricity is bought directly from Eskom at pricing/rates Eskom decides (e.g. Table View), and then there are areas where it is bought from the muncipality e.g. COCT at the pricing/rates which the muncipality decides (usually a much larger markup).

So in Gordons Bay (and rest of Helderberg) we buy from COCT at the huge markup (not directly from Eskom) - but when it comes to load shedding we are treated as if we buy directly from Eskom... Basically we are getting shafted.

Helderberg is the stretch starting with Macassar and ending with Rooi Els. Helderberg is a Cape Town suburb, but in accordance with electricity distribution it is divided into several zones. Strand and Somerset West are allocated to Zone 3 (CoCT). Gordon's Bay is Zone 19 (Eskom), Sir Lowry's is Zone 19 and 18 (Eskom) pending on the area and Macassar is Zone 17 (Eskom).

 

[mmacleod]

Helderberg is the stretch starting with Macassar and ending with Rooi Els. Helderberg is a Cape Town suburb, but in accordance with electricity distribution it is divided into several zones. Strand and Somerset West are allocated to Zone 3 (CoCT). Gordon's Bay is Zone 19 (Eskom), Sir Lowry's is Zone 19 and 18 (Eskom) pending on the area and Macassar is Zone 17 (Eskom).

If this is true then why do Sir Lowrys Pass and Gordons Bay pay COCT prices for electricity and not Eskom prices as other areas of COCT that fall under Eskom do? In reality it seems to be the case that Gordons Bay falls under COCT when it suits them and under Eskom when it does not.

Either the area falls under COCT for distribution or it falls under Eskom chopping and changing between the two is blatantly unfair.