Joburg getting load reduction, load limiting, and geyser switch-offs despite no load-shedding

[Hanno Labuschagne]

Joburg getting load reduction, load limiting, and geyser switch-offs despite no load-shedding

Johannesburg's City Power will start implementing load reduction in areas with "concerning" electricity usage levels that could overload equipment.

The power utility has also threatened to switch off geysers during peak demand periods in areas with substations equipped with ripple relay systems and plans to implement load limiting in areas with smart meters, even outside load-shedding slots.

 

[The_MAC]

Its a shame really, these are high density areas, poorly insulated structures, and probably high energy consumption and inefficient heating is used.

A correctly dimensioned and maintained grid would handle this, not to mention receiving payment from the users to keep it going, even if it's a nominal reduced tariff.

Now you have high demand and no mechanism to deal with it..

 

[Lupus]

Its a shame really, these are high density areas, poorly insulated structures, and probably high energy consumption and inefficient heating is used.

A correctly dimensioned and maintained grid would handle this, not to mention receiving payment from the users to keep it going, even if it's a nominal reduced tariff.

Now you have high demand and no mechanism to deal with it..

Yeah a,properly managed grid with few to no illegal connections, ask why it's mostly in areas with high illegal connections

 

[Petec]

But they are getting their free power. As promised.
Nothing to see here.

 

[The_MAC]

Yeah a,properly managed grid with few to no illegal connections, ask why it's mostly in areas with high illegal connections

And the travesty is that there are users in the mix that can easily pay, but prefer not to

 

[Lupus]

And the travesty is that there are users in the mix that can easily pay, but prefer not to

Possibly, but yeah sadly the areas have seen a massive increase and people have been warned since April that consumption is going up

 

[Hemi300c]

If they can change a name of a street or town or city they can rename anything..................

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

that didnt last long, now did it?
the ANC is in a tight spot, cant load shed freely, so back to its old tricks again with renaming load shedding and media campaigns

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

If they can change a name of a street or town or city they can rename anything..................

Id like to see them rename incompetence and corruption.

 

[Lupus]

that didnt last long, now did it?
the ANC is in a tight spot, cant load shed freely, so back to its old tricks again with renaming load shedding and media campaigns

This has nothing to do with Eskom. This is City power plus load reduction and load shedding are done for different reasons.

 

[HermeticAnarchist]

Id like to see them rename incompetence and corruption.

"Government"

 

[Ivan Leon]

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

This has nothing to do with Eskom. This is City power plus load reduction and load shedding are done for different reasons.

yes of course, the graphs don't lie, the state does not lie, and the politicians/Media never lie.
lets rename power cuts to temporary power interruptions, never load shedding or load reduction or anything sinister like that,

let me ask you this @Lupus , do you believe if coal is wet it makes less power?

 

[Lupus]

yes of course, the graphs don't lie, the state does not lie, and the politicians/Media never lie.
lets rename power cuts to temporary power interruptions, never load shedding or load reduction or anything sinister like that,

let me ask you this @Lupus , do you believe if coal is wet it makes less power?

Firstly City power is announcing this for high density areas, this is not Eskom announcing anything.
There is no lies, no cover ups, I mean we are almost 2 weeks past elections aren't we supposed to be in shedding now? That's what you keep saying, yet strangely enough the unplanned outages dropped to 11GW the EAF still hovering over 60%. So as I've asked you before how are they keeping the lights on, Eskom not City power.

 

[Lupus]

I mean just look at all that load shedding after the blue line.
We had a tree fall on the 88kv line 12 April, was repaired 13th, the next week we had a trip thanks to someone driving into a mini sub, the next one was overload early in the morning and the last one was a bird getting toasted on the new 88kv line.
I mean considering my area is normally worse for power outages this is pretty good.

 

[Polymathic]

Load shedding without calling it load shedding, I don't expect actual load shedding back until the president is sworn in.

 

[gotaway]

loadshedding = no power, but no power != loadshedding
pity the country if even the alleged literate do not grasp basic logic / reasoning

 

[Priapus]

Load shedding without calling it load shedding, I don't expect actual load shedding back until the president is sworn in.

Spoken by someone who clearly has no idea how things work.

This has literally nothing to do with Eskom or the national government. This is a city whose infrastructure is under pressure from illegal connections.

 

[Grubscrew]

Spoken by someone who clearly has no idea how things work.

This has literally nothing to do with Eskom or the national government. This is a city whose infrastructure is under pressure from illegal connections.

Jip and using the policy of policing those who you can, Because those who you can't is hard work.

 

[The_MAC]

Load shedding without calling it load shedding, I don't expect actual load shedding back until the president is sworn in.

Sorry, but no, not this time