Johannesburg proposes big changes to load-shedding schedules

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Johannesburg proposes big changes to load-shedding schedules

The power-distribution utility in South Africa’s commercial capital is in talks with the state electricity company to reduce the duration of outages in the city of more than 5 million people.

City Power officials proposed that the duration of the blackouts in Johannesburg be cut to two hours at a time to help businesses cope, spokesman Isaac Mangena said in an interview on Tuesday.
 
“What we are working on is a plan to cushion our customers from the frequency of load-shedding,” - Mangena said

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Wasn't it originally Jo'burg that said they can't switch things on and off quickly enough, that's why they do 4 hours instead of 2 like everywhere else?
 
Pythonista said:
That's how Cape Town does it ... but then Cape Town is run by competent people.
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No Cape Town has a dam that helps out, if the dam ain't there, you get the 4 hours everyone else does. Unless you're KZN
 
newby_investor said:
Wasn't it originally Jo'burg that said they can't switch things on and off quickly enough, that's why they do 4 hours instead of 2 like everywhere else?
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This was indeed the excuse, Eskom said enough with that, you will go 2 hours like everyone else. Initially it was met with great joy, until you realise 2 hours on stage 2 meant you could get 2 hour slots 6 hours apart, instead of 1 four session every so often, hell at stage 1 you could get days without a power interruption
 
I live in Johannesburg and we get 2.5 hour loadshedding slots. Where is it still 4 hours?
 
RonSwanson said:
I live in Johannesburg and we get 2.5 hour loadshedding slots. Where is it still 4 hours?
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I'm in jhb as well.. Not sure what u mean
 

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I'm in jhb as well.. Not sure what u mean
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So your example illustrates my point, there are 2.5 hour slots. You have 4 slots, two 2.5 hour slots, and one for 4.5 hours because that's how Stage 5 and upwards works, at some point you run out of non-consecutive slots.

Stage 4:
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Stage 5:
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Stage 6:
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The way that it has been worked out is actually not too bad, as long as one stands on the right side of stage 8, after that it's a bloodletting,
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Here is a speculative stage 14, blue slots are speculative:
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The only "Big Changes" would be if City Power could add more hours in a day. But I guess that the concept of finite resources is foreign to many in state jobs.
 
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