Eskom to increase load-shedding to Stage 4 on Sunday evening

[wingnut771]

What do these morons mean. "The power utility warned that it would still take a few weeks for the power generation system to normalise". Does that mean that we stay on one stage and not jump around from one stage to another?

It means they are scraping the bottom of the excuse barrel and that things will stay as they are.

 

[Cranjus McBasketball]

What do these morons mean. "The power utility warned that it would still take a few weeks for the power generation system to normalise". Does that mean that we stay on one stage and not jump around from one stage to another?

With other countries now being affected by entit energy crisis, it's only a matter of time before they start pushing that narrative. "But it's also happening in ........". Pravin already tried it when he pretended to fix the Eskom strike.

 

[R13...]

Not that I want to defend Eskom, but they did note when the strike ended that it might take "weeks to repair".

They also predicted stage 2 by this weekend. Their forecasts are worse than the weather.

 

[Canggu]

We have never bothered with these blackout schedule apps. Cant live my life with "apps".

 

[Draken]

Can somebody please explain to me why the levels of load shedding increase after 10pm. Are we switching off power stations at 10, are we using more power after 10? Where's the logic in increasing loadshedding when most of SA is switching off.

Bud, they have no idea what they are doing, it doesnt get more simple.
I havnt had power from 2am to 7am for the last 3 days(my schedule states 2am to 4am), while they missed my loading shedding at 6pm yesterday.

Aka, they went and load shedded overtime at a time no power was getting used, and missed load shedding at a time that would of saved them 300x the power of the 3x longer 2am load shed.

Hell, any load shedding after 10pm at night, if anything, is only resulting in MORE power usage. Because you arnt really saving much power, because people are pretty much done with big power usage devices(washing machines,cooking,etc). But there is one thing still going. Water Heaters. And the thing is, its more power efficient to keep a water heater, at a high temp, that is it reheating that water back to the temp.

So pretty much any sort of power they 'save' load shedding late at night, is almost instantly lost as the power comes back and everyone`s water heaters need to reach temp again.

 

[PsyWulf]

We have never bothered with these blackout schedule apps. Cant live my life with "apps".

I too prefer the awe and mystery surprise of timing my load-shedding to the cycles of the moon and sun,and determine my daily path as such. Who needs this fancy modern technology like electricity when you can make fire and hunt

 

[Lupus]

I too prefer the awe and mystery surprise of timing my load-shedding to the cycles of the moon and sun,and determine my daily path as such. Who needs this fancy modern technology like electricity when you can make fire and hunt

I hear beeping from my study every so often, but the lights stay on.

 

[Rickster]

Has anyone also not had loadshedding since Friday? (JHB South)

 

[Nike7]

Has anyone also not had loadshedding since Friday? (JHB South)

One of the areas had pretty bad cable theft on a main line which couldn’t be repaired quickly, so with that power not being used CityPower didn’t have to load shed every slot.

 

[J&B]

Another 10 days of this

‘There is light at the end of the tunnel’: Eskom on load-shedding

Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter says the power utility is trying its best to bring a speedy end to load-shedding, but there are significant challenges.

www.timeslive.co.za

 

[Undertile Heating DIY]

This is so sad ESKOM always has the same excuses its never going to end

 

[fragtion]

And the thing is, its more power efficient to keep a water heater, at a high temp, that is it reheating that water back to the temp.

Depends. That isn't always true, AFAIK. I only power on my geyser an hour before I shower, and power it off before I jump in the shower. The water is hot, and the thing only runs for an hour each day. As opposed to firing up automatically every couple minutes, to run for minutes at a time, to keep the water boiling hot when I don't need it to be, seems wasteful... you get the idea.

Assuming the geyser is left on 24/7, and consumes 5 minutes worth of power per hour to maintain target temperature... that means over a 24 hour period it's actually powered on for 120 minutes ie 2 hours, which is longer than the hour that's needed to manually heat up the water on demand. A geyser element, as you know, doesn't exactly have variable consumption, rather it chows a solid 5kw whenever the heating element is excited

 

[J&B]

 

[Johnatan56]

Depends. That isn't always true, AFAIK. I only power on my geyser an hour before I shower, and power it off before I jump in the shower. The water is hot, and the thing only runs for an hour each day. As opposed to firing up automatically every couple minutes, to run for minutes at a time, to keep the water boiling hot when I don't need it to be, seems wasteful... you get the idea.

Assuming the geyser is left on 24/7, and consumes 5 minutes worth of power per hour to maintain target temperature... that means over a 24 hour period it's actually powered on for 120 minutes ie 2 hours, which is longer than the hour that's needed to manually heat up the water on demand. A geyser element, as you know, doesn't exactly have variable consumption, rather it chows a solid 5kw whenever the heating element is excited

It will turn on and off as needed to keep the temp, you'll have standing loss, but the difference between keeping on or switching off should be minimal if one or two days, doesn't really matter that it uses the full power, just the amount of time it stays on.

By allowing it to cool down, you're just allowing bacteria to grow, or you're setting up the temp way higher than it needs to be, so it's running permanently for the hour beforehand.

If you're actually seeing a larger power difference for a daily shower, and you're keeping the temp above bacteria growth, then your insulation is bad and you'll see some savings with a geyser blanket.