Eskom denies lying about load-shedding

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Eskom accused of lying about load-shedding

Eskom has denied using load reduction to hide the amount of load-shedding it is implementing in South Africa.

Following similar allegations in October 2020 and June 2021, energy analyst Ted Blom has again claimed the power utility is being devious in its communication to the public around load-shedding.
 
Mike Hoxbig said:
Article is missing "energy expert"...
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It's implied when Blom is cited by MyBB...

Not much an expert if he doesnt even understand that predicted demand includes the reserve required to be held.

MyBroadband asked Blom which neighbourhoods exactly were being load-shed outside of the stated schedules.

He did not provide specific details but explained that Eskom’s load reduction practice was actually load-shedding in disguise.
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Honesty the guy is sounding super desperate to stay relevant at this point.

And if load reduction is helping avoid load shedding (I don't think it is) and targets high electricity theft areas effectively are we really going to complain?
 
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Jan said:
Eskom accused of lying about load-shedding

Eskom has denied using load reduction to hide the amount of load-shedding it is implementing in South Africa.

Following similar allegations in October 2020 and June 2021, energy analyst Ted Blom has again claimed the power utility is being devious in its communication to the public around load-shedding.
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“I have evidence from suburbs that were load-shed,” Blom stated.
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Ted blooms Evidence, he asked people to contact him when they had load shedding and took every one that said they had ' load shedding' and used that, remember these are people that call every single power outage load shedding.
 
isie said:
Ted blooms Evidence, he asked people to contact him when they had load shedding and took every one that said they had ' load shedding' and used that, remember these are people that call every single power outage load shedding.
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Yup plenty of people who think it's load shedding.
 
Iwojima said:
It's implied when Blom is cited by MyBB...

Not much an expert if he doesnt even understand that stated demand includes the reserve required to be held.

Honesty the guy is sounding super desperate to stay relevant at this point.
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Every now and then we need to be reminded by news outlets that he's an "energy expert".

Chris Yelland on the other hand is different...
 
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isie said:
Ted blooms Evidence, he asked people to contact him when they had load shedding and took every one that said they had ' load shedding' and used that, remember these are people that call every single power outage load shedding.
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Correct. The guy is a joke. Full of hot air and desperation.

Why some people take him seriously is beyond me.

Yellend is marginally more credible and somewhat less full of bluster.
 
Iwojima said:
Yellend is marginally more credible and somewhat less full of bluster.
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Well he's an actual electrical engineer. Still, it's just one guy's opinion.

Blom on the other hand is a complete joke. We may as well start asking Steve Hofmeyr for his analysis...
 
Mike Hoxbig said:
Well he's an actual electrical engineer. Still, it's just one guy's opinion.

Blom on the other hand is a complete joke. We may as well start asking Steve Hofmeyr for his analysis...
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Sure, I would not expect Yelland, as an example, to make the faux pas about demand calculations that Blommie just did.
 
A prime example of where you don't need a qualification to state the obvious. If it's a local grid problem then how can it be planned in advance and be rotational?
 
Swa said:
A prime example of where you don't need a qualification to state the obvious. If it's a local grid problem then how can it be planned in advance and be rotational?
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Tell that to a lot of the people complaining
 
Swa said:
So people overload the grid only on specific days and not others and you can predict it? Makes no sense.
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No.. People overload the grid in a predictable pattern, how that pattern plays out will ebb and flow depending on where.
 
Ted Blom says.......“Say to people: Listen here, I think you are delinquent, and I am going to cut you off because you don’t pay, full stop.”

Lmao.......do you seriously think it will end there? Ask Soweto. That's why load reduction happens because it's a way of forcibly reducing the load due to illegal connections and reconnection to prevent further equipment damage.
Unfortunately there is collateral consequences for paying customers.
 
I don't understand the controversy. Ted's argument sounds pretty legit to me.
Someone will need to explain to me why it isn't.
 
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