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Dear Eskom, please load shed daily until May
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What is wrong with all you people on MyBroadband. Can't you see that she is watching 7de laan.
Willie Hartzenberg
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You Drive your Car [ if you Got ] Without Service and Fuel for Years Bul**** Story
Eskom are muppets, and only see the immediate loss, not the fact that when all the turbines start failing from insufficient maintenance, how much money will be lost from uncontrollable blackouts and emergency maintenance.
A brief, consistent load shedding period would at least help provide some sort of future stability.
I'm sure there are plenty bright minds at Eskom who are all pushing solid stability plans, but unfortunately none of these bright minds are at the top, instead it's just family members who have debit orders on Eskom's account.
A brief, consistent load shedding period would at least help provide some sort of future stability.
I'm sure there are plenty bright minds at Eskom who are all pushing solid stability plans, but unfortunately none of these bright minds are at the top, instead it's just family members who have debit orders on Eskom's account.
Utterly Confused
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+1 Hope that Eskom actually read these posts.
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Looks like your premonition was correct - Koeberg's Unit 1 will be 'offline' until the end of May.
On Sunday 1 February 2015 Koeberg Unit 1 tripped due to an earth fault, which was triggered by a scaffold touching the neutral earthing bar above the restricted earth circuit.
:wtf:
At 20:20 on Thursday, 5 February 2015, while the unit was being synchronized to the national grid, a breaker trip occurred resulting in a turbine trip.
This means that the South African power grid will go into the weekend without the 930MW that was expected to come on line from the unit today.
The system will continue to be under severe pressure over the weekend and next week, so the risk of load shedding remains high, especially tomorrow.
There is a shortage of generation capacity due to units that are on planned and unplanned maintenance.
The focus is on returning the units that are on unplanned maintenance back on line in order to increase available capacity next week.
Eskom will also use the weekend to build up diesel stocks and dam water levels for the open cycle gas turbines (OCGTs) and pumped storage schemes respectively in order to ensure that these reserves are available during the week.
Eskom has decided to keep the Koeberg’s Unit 1 on shutdown to enable completion of a detailed investigation to determine the root cause of the trip.
The reactor is being operated as per the safety specifications and there is no threat to plant, personnel, members of the public, and the environment.
At no stage during the incidents, was there any threat to the reactor or nuclear safety.
Koeberg Unit 1 is scheduled to enter into a refueling and maintenance outage on Monday, 9 February 2015 and is expected to return back to service at the end of May.
The scheduled shutdown of Koeberg Unit 1 is part of Eskom’s overall maintenance programme for its fleet of power stations.
Every 16 to 18 months, each of the two units at Koeberg is shut down for refuelling, inspection and maintenance.
The routine shutdowns are scheduled so as to avoid having both units out of service at the same time and to avoid the winter months in each year.
During these routine planned outages, one third of the used nuclear fuel is replaced with new fuel.
Statutory inspections and maintenance is performed, and modifications, that will ensure that international safety standards continue to be met or that improve the plant performance, are implemented.
Koeberg Unit 2 is currently operating at 100% power and is contributing 930MW to the national grid.
http://www.gov.za/eskom-update-koeberg-unit-1-and-weekend-system-outlook
On Sunday 1 February 2015 Koeberg Unit 1 tripped due to an earth fault, which was triggered by a scaffold touching the neutral earthing bar above the restricted earth circuit.
:wtf:
At 20:20 on Thursday, 5 February 2015, while the unit was being synchronized to the national grid, a breaker trip occurred resulting in a turbine trip.
This means that the South African power grid will go into the weekend without the 930MW that was expected to come on line from the unit today.
The system will continue to be under severe pressure over the weekend and next week, so the risk of load shedding remains high, especially tomorrow.
There is a shortage of generation capacity due to units that are on planned and unplanned maintenance.
The focus is on returning the units that are on unplanned maintenance back on line in order to increase available capacity next week.
Eskom will also use the weekend to build up diesel stocks and dam water levels for the open cycle gas turbines (OCGTs) and pumped storage schemes respectively in order to ensure that these reserves are available during the week.
Eskom has decided to keep the Koeberg’s Unit 1 on shutdown to enable completion of a detailed investigation to determine the root cause of the trip.
The reactor is being operated as per the safety specifications and there is no threat to plant, personnel, members of the public, and the environment.
At no stage during the incidents, was there any threat to the reactor or nuclear safety.
Koeberg Unit 1 is scheduled to enter into a refueling and maintenance outage on Monday, 9 February 2015 and is expected to return back to service at the end of May.
The scheduled shutdown of Koeberg Unit 1 is part of Eskom’s overall maintenance programme for its fleet of power stations.
Every 16 to 18 months, each of the two units at Koeberg is shut down for refuelling, inspection and maintenance.
The routine shutdowns are scheduled so as to avoid having both units out of service at the same time and to avoid the winter months in each year.
During these routine planned outages, one third of the used nuclear fuel is replaced with new fuel.
Statutory inspections and maintenance is performed, and modifications, that will ensure that international safety standards continue to be met or that improve the plant performance, are implemented.
Koeberg Unit 2 is currently operating at 100% power and is contributing 930MW to the national grid.
http://www.gov.za/eskom-update-koeberg-unit-1-and-weekend-system-outlook
My thought for a couple of years. Every time they want a higher rate we get load shedding. Once can be a coincidence. Twice the devil at work. But what do we call three or more times?
Never, 'my people' spent the better part of the last 100 000 years thinking, creating, designing and inventing crap so that I(as their descendent) don't have to live in a cave. It will never 'set' in, I'm just not 'wired' that way.