Sinbad
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Yes - and the stove?
Suddenly you're not allowed to use it, even if you weren't scheduled for load shedding at all.
That's fantastic at dinner time.
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City Power Implementing 'Load Limiting'
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Yes - and the stove?
Suddenly you're not allowed to use it, even if you weren't scheduled for load shedding at all.
That's fantastic at dinner time.
Jola
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1B. They do show that now, but it is not a scheduled cut, and they often only update the website after the power goes down.
Also should have been up already, but nothing.
Neoprod
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Not ideal, agreed. Think my stove has 20amp fuses so I should be able to get use of one plate possibly. Will have to investigate.
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ScottulusMaximus
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So you would prefer no lights, no TV and no stove instead of just making a plan for food... Yes it sucks a bit now having loadshedding and loadlimiting even when not scheduled for shedding but the more of these meters rolled out hopefully the less need for shedding.
The clicking on and off as a warning is really stupid tho, there must be a better system
Jola
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Time to buy Massmart shares.
Maybe the profits will pay for the ups/generator.
Maybe the profits will pay for the ups/generator.
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Well, if my area is not scheduled for load shedding, then I would expect the fscking power to be on and to be able to live my life normally using the service I pay for! If my area IS scheduled for load shedding, I'd make a plan for food and fire up the generator for everything else.
Jola
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Stupid beyond comprehension - the mark of true imbeciles.
ScottulusMaximus
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Well it's simple, loadshedding announced=you will be loadlimited make a ****ing plan
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And when they do it at zero notice? Previously you'd be on alert to the possibility on days when you are scheduled. Now, the first you'll know about it is when you turn the stove on and your TV explodes.
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Jola
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Yeah, true that. My 9kg cylinder needs a refill
Major shortage of gas in Joburg - not a solution !
Gas infrastructure is completely inadequate.
Neoprod
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Someone took the jol out of Jola
Chill, dude...some things you can stress about, some things it makes no difference. Deal with it and move on.
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I've figured out what grates me about this.
Smart meters are not evenly rolled out throughout joburg. More affluent suburbs were targeted for initial rollout.
So now, when we're not scheduled for load shedding, we get limited so ****ty power doesn't have to load shed another block.
But when we are scheduled for loadshedding, the other blocks won't have smart metering so we will get turned off anyway.
And if you question my numbers... City power say 50k smart meters have been rolled out.
My suburb has over 4000 households and they've done just about all of them. That's 8 percent of the installed base in one suburb.
Smart meters are not evenly rolled out throughout joburg. More affluent suburbs were targeted for initial rollout.
So now, when we're not scheduled for load shedding, we get limited so ****ty power doesn't have to load shed another block.
But when we are scheduled for loadshedding, the other blocks won't have smart metering so we will get turned off anyway.
And if you question my numbers... City power say 50k smart meters have been rolled out.
My suburb has over 4000 households and they've done just about all of them. That's 8 percent of the installed base in one suburb.
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48kg cylinders x2, one always full, replacement ordered as soon as one empties. Good few months grace
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This is a very valid though hopefully temporary, point. It would be interesting to see where the 92000 installed smart meters have gone and where the next 30000 are scheduled to go.
Temporary because the plan must be for every City Power customer to get one, surely.
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It's taken them over a year to do our suburb. It's a very slow process. Think of the logistics.
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Someone took the jol out of Jola
Chill, dude...some things you can stress about, some things it makes no difference. Deal with it and move on.
True.
Should just sit back with a candle and a whisky and appreciate true incompetence.
Something people in other countries never experience.
We are so fortunate.
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If they have to do this, it would be great for them to let you know without the 30 second intervals that blow things up.
As we have those wireless monitor things, would be better if that used those somehow?
Ie give us as figure to stick to and ball beep/flash warnings if we go over. I mean that have fancy meters and wireless monitors ... Use them!
As we have those wireless monitor things, would be better if that used those somehow?
Ie give us as figure to stick to and ball beep/flash warnings if we go over. I mean that have fancy meters and wireless monitors ... Use them!