City Power Implementing 'Load Limiting'

Sinbad said:
To make matters worse, it appears that this load limiting is NOT tied into the load shedding schedules.

People in our area, which is only on the list for 20:00-00:00 stage 2, are being load limited and are now sitting in darkness.
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"Sitting in darkness"? What about the 30 second intervals?
 
Knyro said:
"Sitting in darkness"? What about the 30 second intervals?
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they got the 30 second on off thing 5 times, didn't know wtf was happening and are now in the dark.
Or weren't home for the appliance-killing...
 
Sinbad said:
To make matters worse, it appears that this load limiting is NOT tied into the load shedding schedules.

People in our area, which is only on the list for 20:00-00:00 stage 2, are being load limited and are now sitting in darkness.
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That makes sense though... Load limiting across every smart meter would be the first prize to avoid having to.load shed an entire area. The only problem now is the lack of penetration...they need to roll these out to a.critical mass.of users before it becomes fair / effective.
 
Neoprod said:
That makes sense though... Load limiting across every smart meter would be the first prize to avoid having to.load shed an entire area. The only problem now is the lack of penetration...they need to roll these out to a.critical mass.of users before it becomes fair / effective.
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Yes, except that it's people who are NOT supposed to be load shed now, and were not planning it, who are getting fscked in the ass.

How do you plan?
 
Sinbad said:
Yes, except that it's people who are NOT supposed to be load shed now, and were not planning it, who are getting fscked in the ass.

How do you plan?
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Agree it's gonna suck till everyone (or at least the majority of customers) has a smart meter. I would complain and ask for a lower electricity rate as a token of something for being an early adopter.
 
Neoprod said:
Logical though still needs clarification if so. Do I need to get 10% lower than historical? 20%? Some other target?
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My understanding is it's capped at 21 amps. Go over that, click.
 
I never get loadshed when scheduled, and often when not scheduled.

This sound like a system thought out by imbeciles.

The only winners will be Makro, Game and Dion Wired.

Time to buy shares in electronics/white goods suppliers.
 
AdrianH said:
Most insurance companies no longer pay out for damaged appliances or electronics due to load shedding. Their reasoning is that load shedding is no longer an unplanned event and you need to protect your appliances and electronics as you know it is occurring.

It was in the news a couple months back.
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Based on this loadlimiting, it's no longer planned.
City power will turn you off and on again on a whim, regardless of schedules.
 
I did some sums and it turns out 21amps is quite a lot...I shouldn't have any problems with that personally. If you have concurrent greedy appliances, ymmv.
 
Neoprod said:
I did some sums and it turns out 21amps is quite a lot...I shouldn't have any problems with that personally. If you have concurrent greedy appliances, ymmv.
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Geyser > 20 amps
Stove > 20 amps
Kettle = 15 amps

If you live in a 1 bed apartment, no big deal. Big house - not so easy.
 
Sinbad said:
Geyser > 20 amps
Stove > 20 amps
Kettle = 15 amps

If you live in a 1 bed apartment, no big deal. Big house - not so easy.
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Geyser / pool pumps etc. should really be on timers by now. Can't see the problem to be honest...it's putting more responsibility on the consumer to be more aware of their usage...no big deal.
 
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