CT CBD outage

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46Female said:
this was one of the worst things that happened this year
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Not if you live in Joburg.

Jokes aside, doesn't matter where you live in SA, you have to be making plans to wave bye-bye to the 'jalopie' that is the SA electrical grid. If you don't, there is far more frustration coming your way.
 
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Roman4604 said:
Not if you live in Joburg.

Jokes aside, doesn't matter where you live in SA, you have to be making plans to wave bye-bye to the 'jalopie' that is the SA electrical grid. If you don't, there is far more frustration coming your way.
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I live in a block of flats how do I make other arrangements for electricity?
 
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46Female said:
I live in a block of flats how do I make other arrangements for electricity?
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Some creative thinking probably required.

As a general principal you should be thinking that your power will be coming from batteries [via an inverter]. The trick is to figure out how best to recharge the batteries when they go flat? Off the top of my head, maybe a wind turbine on a boom that you can stick out the balcony? Plenty of well-versed renewable energy people on this sub-forum, ask around.
 
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46Female said:
I live in a block of flats how do I make other arrangements for electricity?
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I live in a block as well and we have a generator to power the common area.

I can also plug into the generator via the power points in the common area- just need a lead extension.
 
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Most people are not going to be installing their own electricity supply whether they live in houses or not. Simply neither affordable nor practical.

saturnz said:
its not like this City was falling apart before the DA got here...
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The same can be said for all the ones the ANC, UDM, etc have run into the ground.
 
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rh1 said:
Not sure if posted anywhere:

www.capetownetc.com

These Cape Town areas will be without electricity this week

According to a statement, the City informs residents that maintenance will take place to allow them time to plan for the outage and to allow sufficient time to complete the required maintenance tasks.
www.capetownetc.com

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For years the CoCT has done yearly scheduled maintenance on mini-transformers (equivalent to an oil change on a vehicle). It is done on a very small scale, affecting a few blocks at a time (not whole suburbs). Notifications are placed in postboxes, although exact dates may change due to rainy weather.
 
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four hours of no power only to find out this is not load shedding but a "normal" outage
 
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