Erwin wants 10% power saving

Unfortunately we need... 100% Erwin loss, 100% Phumzile loss, 100% Sonjica loss... oh and a complete purging of the Eskom board of all appointees post 1994.
 
I wish they would STFU with their press releases and spend their time fixing their fvck-ups.
 
I think Eskom will have to inform the public peak / off-peak consumption time table (on a 24 hour table)

IMO our only solution to this 5-year problem is to coerce households to use off-peak capacity for heating appliances and spare peak capacity to normalize economic activities.

Many of us will happily comply to switch on geysers only off-peak hours.We need to know exactly what hours national demand is low.

Perhaps we should consider pricing peak(expensive) /off-peak capacity(cheap) differently to encourage consumers to use off-peak capacity. (or dissuade from using peak capacity).
 
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Gooku said:
I think Eskom will have to inform the public peak / off-peak consumption time table (on a 24 hour table)

IMO our only solution to this 5-year problem is to coerce households to use off-peak capacity for heating appliances and spare peak capacity to normalize economic activities.

Many of us will happily comply to switch on geysers only off-peak hours.We need to know exactly what hours national demand is low.

Perhaps we should consider pricing peak(expensive) /off-peak capacity(cheap) differently to encourage consumers to use off-peak capacity. (or dissuade from using peak capacity).
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I don't know if this is the right place, but try:

http://www.poweralert.co.za/poweralert3/index.php?location=online
 
Erwin is a 100% loss.

What a moron.

I ask with tears in my eyes how a 10% power saving will make the problems "a thing of the past", when:
1) Our economy is growing and using more power every month
2) They continue to break power stations, and have coal shortages etc.

A 10% saving now, even with 2) taken out of the picture, might just get us to end 2009.
Add 2) into the equation, and it won't get us to June 2008.

African planning:
Have I had lunch yet? No - think as far as lunch. Yes - think as far as sleep when I will "grow cleverer".

Idiots.
 
Gooku said:
I think Eskom will have to inform the public peak / off-peak consumption time table (on a 24 hour table)

IMO our only solution to this 5-year problem is to coerce households to use off-peak capacity for heating appliances and spare peak capacity to normalize economic activities.

Many of us will happily comply to switch on geysers only off-peak hours.We need to know exactly what hours national demand is low.

Perhaps we should consider pricing peak(expensive) /off-peak capacity(cheap) differently to encourage consumers to use off-peak capacity. (or dissuade from using peak capacity).
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While agree, in theory, in practice I'm not home during off-peak hours (except for the middle of the night). Now a geyser I could put on a timer (except I have to pay for an electrician to do that - how about instead of handing out and replacing incandescent light bulbs with CFLs, they go around installing geyser timers for people?), but heavy use things like a washing machine will often have to be used in peak time - simply because there is no automated way to do it in the middle of the day. Peak is peak for a reason...

As you say, though, it depends when peak time actually is.
 
Erwin is right people, we have to work together now and create a more energy efficient country thus saving more energy so that Eskom has to do less work and get less trouble! (Sarcasm )
 
Have you ever heard of a company telling you to use less of their product?
 
This 10% less power thing of them won't work - new houses, shops, factories etc will wipe that 10% out soon enough :rolleyes:

They dinna smoked blue mushrooms either, wonder if they're from another planet? :confused:
 
xrapidx said:
Telscum want us to use less of their products? :eek:

They just want us to pay for more of their products. :sick:
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"abuse", remember - the same word Eskom and the ANC lackeys are now using in regards to power.
 
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