Eskom has recovered enough generating capacity to end load-shedding early

[Jet-Fighter7700]

I suppose they want us to thank them. Fkn pricks.

of course, thanks to their glorious incompetence we somehow still have electricity,
they tried so hard to destroy it, but it still keeps on going, like the Duracell Bunny on Nyope

 

[Mystic Twilight]

Boggles my mind as well - after more than a decade of LS people still fail to understand the system and then rant on SM.

I seem to recall the duration and frequency for load shedding had changed during the decade.

 

[Lupus]

I seem to recall the duration and frequency for load shedding had changed during the decade.

Various muncipalities have changed the hours here or there, frequency would tie into that I guess. But up until February 2021 any City Power customer was under 4 hours a session where stage 2 would give 1 to 2 sessions a day.

 

[Snyper564]

the coal is dry again

 

[grok]

Boggles my mind as well - after more than a decade of LS people still fail to understand the system and then rant on SM.

Some minds are easily boggled, others refuse to submit and subscribe to their way of thinking lest they become like them.

Then again I'm very seldom loadshat, must be my privilege kicking in or something..

“Eskom, therefore, requests the assistance of all South Africans to continue using electricity sparingly.”

How do you even do that? I pay for what I use, go bother the ones that don't pay, the only time I use less is if you cut my power, else I'm just carrying on as normal and assume everyone else does too..

 

[grok]

Boggles my mind as well - after more than a decade of LS people still fail to understand the system and then rant on SM.

Some minds are easily boggled, others refuse to submit and subscribe to their way of thinking lest they become like them.

Then again I'm very seldom loadshat, must be my privilege kicking in or something..

“Eskom, therefore, requests the assistance of all South Africans to continue using electricity sparingly.”

How do you even do that? I pay for what I use, go bother the ones that don't pay, the only time I use less is if you cut my power, else I'm just carrying on as normal and assume everyone else does too..

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

You know what this means:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1503385552174952449

 

[zoozi]

You know what this means:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1503385552174952449

So stage 2 from 9pm then? /Checks ESP for schedule.

 

[Gtx Gaming]

Coming soon lol

 

[Gtx Gaming]

Getting close, my guess is they have enough diesel for tonight and maybe tomorow and hope some units start working pretty soon.

 

[sand_man]

Utterly useless and incompetent bunch of morons!

 

[Lupus]

So stage 2 from 9pm then? /Checks ESP for schedule.

Not always the case, it'll go green at 9pm

 

[sand_man]

Not always the case, it'll go green at 9pm

The last time there was a 17.00 and 19.00 power alert warning we had a week of load shedding!

 

[Lupus]

The last time there was a 17.00 and 19.00 power alert warning we had a week of load shedding!

Sigh yes but they also didn't send the green at 9pm as they were hitting the red actually from 3pm but they only sent the warning from 5pm. As bad as this looks, it's nothing compared to last Monday. They also did say Monday and Tuesday will be tight

 

[Azure 12]

Who'd've thunkit?

 

[Fulcrum29]

I am still mad about Friday, though not necessarily due to Eskom's incompetence. To get back OT, same old, this will be repeated many more times with many more loadsheddings in-between.

 

[Lupus]

Today the grid looks really bad. That is not good at all seeing red from 1pm and no real recovery.

 

[Gtx Gaming]

Today the grid looks really bad. That is not good at all seeing red from 1pm and no real recovery.
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Evening Peak Feedback 14/03/2022, 18:55 Total demand: 28 466MW Interruptible Load Supply: 265MW Eskom OCGT's Utilised: 3 IPP OCGT's Utilised: 6 Renewable Generation: 1 455MW (Wind 1 072MW, CSP 383MW)
@Eskom_SA
Available Generation Capacity: 29 284MW

They had better looking numbers last night

 

[rh1]

Hopefully this type of thing is motivation for people to start ditching Eskom. Already got my parents on board, as well as one neighbour who kept peeping into my yard every time their power went off...

He might be just checking you out.

 

[Lupus]

Evening Peak Feedback 14/03/2022, 18:55 Total demand: 28 466MW Interruptible Load Supply: 265MW Eskom OCGT's Utilised: 3 IPP OCGT's Utilised: 6 Renewable Generation: 1 455MW (Wind 1 072MW, CSP 383MW)
@Eskom_SA
Available Generation Capacity: 29 284MW

They had better looking numbers last night

Yup they did, may still have them but will need to see as poweralert has been wrong sometimes, like a few weeks ago where we got red alerts from 5pm but the generation was in the 30s.
Even looking at their data portal is BS



I mean according to this the nuclear generation is 1800? Which isn't possible as Koeberg is still down, and apparently our thermal generation is over 40k? Which also isn't possible as we only have 37GW installed?