Eskom increases OCGT usage

[mylesillidge]

Eskom burns diesel

Eskom has increased its use of diesel-fuelled Open-Cycle Gas Turbines (OCGTs) to prevent load-shedding during the evening peak as it struggles to return some units to service on time.

Eskom’s OCGTs are referred to as peaking stations, which are plants used to manage short periods of elevated demand.

 

[Lupus]

Yeah that's kinda the job of peaking plants, to run if needed.

Stage 6 load shedding costs South Africa over R4 billion a day: economist

Alexforbes chief economist Isaah Mhlanga says Eskom’s prolonged stage 6 load shedding has already caused significant damage to the country’s economy, with over R4 billion wiped from the GDP for each day it continues.

businesstech.co.za

 

[Iamn0tageek]

ag burn that diesel as much as you want

you already over charging so might as well do a good job of doing us in

use more diesel

 

[icarusza]

Where have I seen this before? Eskom wants price increase. There is resistance. Threat of loadshedding follows.

 

[wingnut771]

Did Daily Investor ask Eskom why they use expensive diesel to pump water back overnight?

I've never seen Drakensberg drop below 70 hours:

 

[r00igev@@r]

If you burn it you can't sell it to eat. Stop that comrades!

 

[FiestaST]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1847870794627502187

 

[longboy]

I would love to see the total collapse of Eskom. Fark those illegal connection okes and subsidised people.

We shouldn't be paying for off-grid plus Eskom monthly fee.

 

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[TrueSeeker]

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Not as wet as the coal

 

[Bliksis]

Ai yeses Shaun.

 

[Tantric Smurf]

Not as wet as the coal

Not as wet as diesel tenderpreneurs

 

[HAL 9000]

Where have I seen this before? Eskom wants price increase. There is resistance. Threat of loadshedding follows.

 

[longboy]

We already like the top 5 most expensive electricity prices in the world I think.

Eskom does not need any more increases. They need new management/ cut bloated useless workers/ stop corruption/ theft/ nepotism/ BEE.

 

[Bad Ballie]

This is the reality of Eskom, they haven't sorted anything out, there is no plan, just all the diesel generators running 24/7 just to keep the lie alive by keeping the lights on no matter what. Government would have wasted 6 Trillion by the time this nonsense ends.

The only thing the ANC has achieved is ensuring that this country will never be anything other then a 3rd world backwater.

 

[wingnut771]

This is the reality of Eskom, they haven't sorted anything out, there is no plan, just all the diesel generators running 24/7 just to keep the lie alive by keeping the lights on no matter what. Government would have wasted 6 Trillion by the time this nonsense ends.

The only thing the ANC has achieved is ensuring that this country will never be anything other then a 3rd world backwater.

Red is Eskom OCGT use:

Station build-up for the last 7 days - Eskom Data Portal

This shows how resources were used to build-up the demand over the past 7 days, and it includes both generation and demand side resources that Eskom has contracts with.

www.eskom.co.za

 

[Lupus]

Red is Eskom OCGT use:

Station build-up for the last 7 days - Eskom Data Portal

This shows how resources were used to build-up the demand over the past 7 days, and it includes both generation and demand side resources that Eskom has contracts with.

www.eskom.co.za

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Just look at it, 24/7 every day... Oh wait

 

[Mike Angelo]

Is it just me or does anyone else consider something that was current more than a week ago not to be newsworthy...?

 

[Lupus]

Is it just me or does anyone else consider something that was current more than a week ago not to be newsworthy...?

Yeah seems to be

 

[c3n0byt3]

Red is Eskom OCGT use:

Station build-up for the last 7 days - Eskom Data Portal

This shows how resources were used to build-up the demand over the past 7 days, and it includes both generation and demand side resources that Eskom has contracts with.

www.eskom.co.za

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I assume that IPP OCGT (light pink) is lumped together in Mybbs/Eskom's reporting? If so then it's pretty constant.
I don't know about super recent, but this year still both Avon and Dedisa were running much more than recommended. Does Eskom not purchase this power at a much higher rate? French making a killing.