Eskom drops winter bombshell

reactor_sa said:
I'm quite jealous of my folks off grid solar setup. They only use about 2 hours of Eskom on overcast days. Now if I could just find R120 000 in capital...
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And another few thousand in like 3 years when you have to replace the whole setup.
 
They didn't do the required capacity upgrades, they haven't kept to any sort of maintenance schedule, NOW they apparently have some sort of maintenance plan? Lol, whatever, as if they are going to stick to it (if they do actually have any plan, and it all isn't just hot air!)

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TJ99 said:
And another few thousand in like 3 years when you have to replace the whole setup.
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Batteries apparently good for about 8 years when used with proper charge controller and inverter; swedish inverter and aussie charge controller in use.
 
Sinbad said:
Blind Faith said:
Of course. Foresight is an Extra in the circus.
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Nah. To do their maintenance they would have needed load-shedding which would have damned them in our eyes anyway.
Eskom was handcuffed by the cANCer government in the late 90s and early 00s when they were prevented from doing capacity upgrades because it was better to spend the money on submarines, frigates and black bmws.
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...and this is why I will likely never drive a BMW (or pilot a frigate or submarine)
 
FFS why doesn't government end Eskom's monopoly already
 
mmmig said:
FFS why doesn't government end Eskom's monopoly already
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Mitos said:
We definitely need a new power utility company in SA....these bastids need competition! :mad:
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Lets assume a new power utility were to sign a contract RIGHT now to build a power station in SA.. what makes you think the build will be any quicker than something like Kusile?.. you would be looking at a minimum 5yr lead time from signing the construction contract to actually being able to provide power.
 
ToxicBunny said:
Lets assume a new power utility were to sign a contract RIGHT now to build a power station in SA.. what makes you think the build will be any quicker than something like Kusile?.. you would be looking at a minimum 5yr lead time from signing the construction contract to actually being able to provide power.
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Not to mention that their cost for power will be a lot higher than eskom's as they need to get a return on investment sooner rather than later.
 
No bonuses paid out if they load-shed just once, according to Brian Dames...
 
ToxicBunny said:
They will just call it something else then I reckon.
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Well he referred to what they're going to be doing as load-shedding, and John Robbie had him repeat his "bonus-load-shed" policy three times before letting him go.

He will be hung, drawn and quartered if he tries to justify a lie with technical semantics...
 
Doing prolonged planned maintence during the period of the year where the demand is the highest....Interesing. Seems the beast that is Eskom has been angered by the tariff increase it did not get.
 
DJ... said:
Well he referred to what they're going to be doing as load-shedding, and John Robbie had him repeat his "bonus-load-shed" policy three times before letting him go.

He will be hung, drawn and quartered if he tries to justify a lie with technical semantics...
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We can hope, but I just don't really trust anything that Eskom say anymore really.
 
DJ... said:
Well he referred to what they're going to be doing as load-shedding, and John Robbie had him repeat his "bonus-load-shed" policy three times before letting him go.

He will be hung, drawn and quartered if he tries to justify a lie with technical semantics...
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They'll call it preventative maintenance.

Load shedding still is load shedding, no matter what they will try to call it.
 
The_Librarian said:
They'll call it preventative maintenance.

[-]Load shedding [/-] Rolling blackouts still are [-]is load shedding[/-] rolling blackouts, no matter what they will try to call it.
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FTFY. You've already fallen for Eskom's indoctrination techniques!
 
City power seem to be warning of coming outages too:
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Fair enough, but why not divide the power grids - maybe an East and a West and allocate them to different power utilities; no need to start a fresh and build anew. Just expropriate half of Eskom's existing grid (performance failure's a good reason).
I mean they want to go along with the same idea with SANRAL....which wants to toll existing roads, right? So why not divide the grid then? It's all tax payers property anyway, in a sense.....

ToxicBunny said:
Lets assume a new power utility were to sign a contract RIGHT now to build a power station in SA.. what makes you think the build will be any quicker than something like Kusile?.. you would be looking at a minimum 5yr lead time from signing the construction contract to actually being able to provide power.
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Sinbad said:
Not to mention that their cost for power will be a lot higher than eskom's as they need to get a return on investment sooner rather than later.
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