Eskom power cuts will continue this weekend

[mylesillidge]

Eskom power cuts this weekend as cold front rolls in

Eskom has announced that Stage 2 load-shedding will be implemented between 17:00 and 22:00 on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, the 21st and 22nd of May 2022.

The power utility had previously expected to run load-shedding until Friday. However, there is still a substantial shortage of generation capacity, resulting in Eskom having to extend the power cuts.

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

Hopefully CoCT does it what it did last weekend and have no LS over the weekend!

 

[AlphaJohn]

 

[Lupus]

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Getting harder and harder to not have some form of backup nowadays.

 

[Obieone]

18:00 - 20:30 for us today, kom ons braai!

 

[r00igev@@r]

We going rock like 1651 using firewood.

 

[sand_man]

I can see this 5pm business lasting the entire winter. 12 days and counting!! Lekker for the restaurant business!! Fother Muckers!!! HATE ESKOM!!

 

[AlphaJohn]

18:00 - 20:30 for us today, kom ons braai!

F that, Its winter...

Will use gas stove instead. Stay inside where its nice and toasty with my gas heater.

 

[borro]

We going rock like 1651 using firewood.

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

I can see this 5pm business lasting the entire winter. 12 days and counting!! Lekker for the restaurant business!! Fother Muckers!!! HATE ESKOM!!

Might improve when one of the Koeberg units return in June. But it's a very strong "might"...

 

[R13...]

I can see this 5pm business lasting the entire winter. 12 days and counting!! Lekker for the restaurant business!! Fother Muckers!!! HATE ESKOM!!

Funny thing is that restaurants are my saviour during these evening loadshedding slots. I go there until after my slot is over.

 

[Lupus]

Might improve when one of the Koeberg units return in June. But it's a very strong "might"...

There's also a kusile unit coming online so that'll be 1600MW

 

[r00igev@@r]

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[Obieone]

F that, Its winter...

Will use gas stove instead. Stay inside where its nice and toasty with my gas heater.

Lekker fire with kammeeldoring and a bottle of obies for the cold.

 

[RaptorSA]

I don't know what constitues a national emergency, but this kinda seems like one to me.
I'd say we should send in the military, but then again at this point I won't even be surprised if the one working Ratel we have left is busy carrying copper and troglodytes whille running on cooking olive oil.

 

[AlphaJohn]

Lekker fire with kammeeldoring and a bottle of obies for the cold.

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Forgot to add, with Disney+ we will most probably be binge watching, while the songs of Africa(Generators) gets played all over my neighbour.

 

[system32]

Getting harder and harder to not have some form of backup nowadays.

Using a UPS helps you.
Only minimally helps Eskom.
As soon as your load shedding rotation is over, you draw extra from the grid to charge the UPS.
UPS + Solar is is the best way to go.

 

[AlphaJohn]

Using a UPS helps you.
Only minimally helps Eskom.
As soon as your load shedding rotation is over, you draw extra from the grid to charge the UPS.
UPS + Solar is is the best way to go.

Last time I check sun doesnt work after hours in my area so my solar is useless

 

[greg0205]

Mother****er!

 

[system32]

Last time I check sun doesnt work after hours in my area so my solar is useless

Last time I checked, solar shines during the day, solar charges battery during the day, then you use the battery at night:

Here are my stats:


Since installation in Nov 2021, have not suffered an outage during load shedding.