Eskom wants to implement power cuts in Durban

[ToxicBunny]

Oh yea 100%. Areas that are just getting onto their feet where loadshedding would just detonate the transformer and set them back to zero is not on.

Areas that haven't been impacted though. The shedding should never have stopped in the first place.

Given what I know happened, I think it was more a case that the centralised control systems were fscked and the main switching stations were all screwed as well....

So as an example, I was without power for nearly a week due to our transformer going boom, and then for a further few days while they rigged up an alternate feed from a different switching station while they jerry rigged the other one... and I very much doubt either station is in great shape so Load shedding a huge part of the Inner West area could theoretically be a risky ask. (and its an area that probably encompasses a few hundred thousand people)

 

[cavedog]

No @wingnut771 it's time now. Stage 6 is hitting us hard.

**Switches off pc to get ready for the 2nd loadshedding slot**

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

Areas that haven't been affected by the floods should be shed. They've been freeloading for too long now...

 

[wingnut771]

You haven't. Some other poor individuals have been reduced like it's stage infinity. None of this "we" garbage.


No your area will be shed like it's stage 6. Just like the rest of us. Other people's misfortune should not excuse areas with infrastructure not impacted by the floods. Eskom is a national problem. No individual South African should be getting out of this without inconvenience.

We = eThekwini

eThekwini buys bulk power from Eskom. Its 800MW lower than it's supposed to. Shedding more areas just so that they can "suffer" like the rest of you is illogical from a power shedding point of view.

 

[wingnut771]

No @wingnut771 it's time now. Stage 6 is hitting us hard.

**Switches off pc to get ready for the 2nd loadshedding slot**

Another 100MW isn't going to make a difference.

 

[bixt]

I am from Durban. I can confirm we have had zero load shedding for many months now, since the first floods. We have completely forgotten what load shedding is. When we see articles about stage 6, we laugh and ignore them.

Maybe Durban should also become its own country like Cape Town.

 

[porchrat]

We = eThekwini

!We.contains(you).

It's easy to harp on about this "we" that doesn't impact you.

eThekwini buys bulk power from Eskom. Its 800MW lower than it's supposed to. Shedding more areas just so that they can "suffer" like the rest of you is illogical from a power shedding point of view.

No I disagree. Every little bit counts now. You shouldn't get a free ride off the misfortune of others.

Especially any ANC voters out there still riding on destroyed lives elsewhere in the city. They definitely need to feel it. Don't want them starting to think their choices don't have consequences.

The point of loadshedding is that we all collectively need to reduce load to keep that grid alive. That means each individual does their part and has their moment of inconvenience throughout the day. Right now you're not doing your part and you're hiding behind the horror other people have had to endure to justify it. Disgusting.

 

[porchrat]

I am from Durban. I can confirm we have had zero load shedding for many months now, since the first floods. We have completely forgotten what load shedding is. When we see articles about stage 6, we laugh and ignore them.

Maybe Durban should also become its own country like Cape Town.

Take the whole of KZN with you please. Do you want the Eastern Cape too?

 

[wingnut771]

!We.contains(you).

It's easy to harp on about this "we" that doesn't impact you.


No I disagree. Every little bit counts now. You shouldn't get a free ride off the misfortune of others.

Especially any ANC voters out there still riding on destroyed lives elsewhere in the city. They definitely need to feel it. Don't want them starting to think their choices don't have consequences.

The point of loadshedding is that we all collectively need to reduce load to keep that grid alive. That means each individual does their part and has their moment of inconvenience throughout the day. Right now you're not doing your part and you're hiding behind the horror other people have had to endure to justify it. Disgusting.

What you're basically saying is that JHB sheds 600MW, Cape Town sheds 600MW, and Durban must shed 1400MW (800MW+600MW).

Yeah, illogical.

 

[porchrat]

What you're basically saying is that JHB sheds 600MW, Cape Town sheds 600MW, and Durban must shed 1400MW.

Yeah, illogical.

Currently Durban isn't "shedding" anything. They've experienced a natural disaster. Load-shedding is planned rotational power cuts.

I'm saying you personally need to shed your portion of the national load. Every single South African carries the burden of Eskom. We should all carry it as equally as possible. You shouldn't get a pass because someone else's life has been ruined by a natural disaster and frankly it's selfish that you think it should be so.

When my area fails to come back online after loadhsedding because my transformer blew I don't get to skip the next bout of loadshedding because I ran over on my schedule. Technically my city shed more power than was required at that point... I don't get that credit back. Why the heck should you get that credit because some other poor soul has had no power for weeks?! Nah screw that.

 

[AstroTurf]

payback is a b****

I thought the floods were pretty karmatic after the riots.
(a joke, I would not wish that recent madness on anyone).

 

[mr_norris]

I'm saying you personally need to shed your portion of the national load. Every single South African carries the burden of Eskom. We should all carry it as equally as possible. You shouldn't get a pass because someone else's life has been ruined by a natural disaster and frankly it's selfish that you think it should be so.

I get where you are coming from but your anger is misdirected. You should contact the municipality and fight for your cause. People like me and wingnut not being loadshed is beyond our control.

And the whole point of the article, at least the IOL one with actual facts, is that we will most likely join everyone in loadshedding from August - the very thing you want to happen.

Sheesh man.

 

[Sarg3_ZN]

What you're basically saying is that JHB sheds 600MW, Cape Town sheds 600MW, and Durban must shed 1400MW (800MW+600MW).

Yeah, illogical.

While illogical, the real question is just how badly f***ed up is the grid/powerstations that we have to contribute another reduction of 600MW over the 800MW already "lost".

Something is not lekker at Eskom.


Side note, provided we don't mess up the infrastructure in Durban we should also have our fair share of load shedding, I mean the rest of KZN have been having it we should not get exempt from it.
Will also provide the ANC supporters in the city with something to ponder over before the next round of elections

 

[wingnut771]

Currently Durban isn't "shedding" anything. They've experienced a natural disaster. Load-shedding is planned rotational power cuts.

I'm saying you personally need to shed your portion of the national load. Every single South African carries the burden of Eskom. We should all carry it as equally as possible. You shouldn't get a pass because someone else's life has been ruined by a natural disaster and frankly it's selfish that you think it should be so.

When my area fails to come back online after loadhsedding because my transformer blew I don't get to skip the next bout of loadshedding because I ran over on my schedule. Technically my city shed more power than was required at that point... I don't get that credit back. Why the heck should you get that credit because some other poor soul has had no power for weeks?! Nah screw that.

Durban is shedding 800MW from a natural disaster. Loadshedding is done to reduce load to avoid blackout. How that is done is normally with rotational blackouts. If a natural disaster reduces it for us, it's the same thing at the end of the day.

The city only has another 500MW left, so we might as well just switch the whole place off then is what you're asking. Durban can be the first city to have a continuous blackout then.

 

[saor]

I thought the floods were pretty karmatic after the riots.
(a joke, I would not wish that recent madness on anyone).

Was the reduced dbn load shedding implemented as a flood relief thing?

 

[Sarg3_ZN]

Was the reduced dbn load shedding implemented as a flood relief thing?

pretty much

 

[AstroTurf]

Was the reduced dbn load shedding implemented as a flood relief thing?

From the article:

Some areas in the municipality have thus far been exempt from load shedding following damage to electricity infrastructure during flooding in the area in April.

 

[wingnut771]

Was the reduced dbn load shedding implemented as a flood relief thing?

No, landslides ripped everything out the ground.

 

[porchrat]

I get where you are coming from but your anger is misdirected. You should contact the municipality and fight for your cause. People like me and wingnut not being loadshed is beyond our control.

And the whole point of the article, at least the IOL one with actual facts, is that we will most likely join everyone in loadshedding from August - the very thing you want to happen.

Sheesh man.

I don't need to take my fight to the municipality. Eskom is doing that already and rightfully so. I'm in agreement with what's happening there.

My anger is not misdirected here. I'm angry at this fellow's attitude. His belief that he is morally justified living loadshedding free because someone next door had their life destroyed.

 

[porchrat]

Durban is shedding 800MW from a natural disaster. Loadshedding is done to reduce load to avoid blackout. How that is done is normally with rotational blackouts. If a natural disaster reduces it for us, it's the same thing at the end of the day.

Again this "us".

You haven't been reduced at all. All that is being asked here is that you live the same way the rest of South Africa is living.

The city only has another 500MW left, so we might as well just switch the whole place off then is what you're asking. Durban can be the first city to have a continuous blackout then.

This is a strawman. Nobody is asking for this. Don't be absurd.