Load Shedding - the all in one thread

Wow, so if Koeberg can generate 1800MW, and according to eskom's website, we are missing 2000MW now (earlier it was 3000MW) - it means we need 2 more Koebergs right NOW(nevermind the fact that they say it is going down next week???). We are utterly and truely fukced !!!!
 
DigitalSoldier said:
There is a nice quote the ANC supporters normally use in a situation like this.

"It's what the majority wanted"
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And there is another well known quote:
"May you get what you deserve"


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Damn, this one is quite good, and totally off topic for this thread :D
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.

The one that conveys what I wanted to say:
[A] Vote: The instrument and symbol of a free man's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
 
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Was in the little town of Bloemhof today, about 300 km's from JHB on the N12. Many of the businesses are refusing to use the supplied power IF/WHEN its on, preferring to keep the gen.sets running. Well, if you have a 2 hour on, 2 hour off cycle every damn day, you tend to think "out of the box". Thats the electrical box on the wall. How many larger businesses who have proper standby plants opted to do same, I wonder.
Also, with the new municipal structures (one name and 2 or 3 towns in the municipality), the IT infrastructure is a central billing system in one town, with the others linking in via different means and methods to it. The scheduling makes that when HeadOffice has power, the others are without, and vice-versa. OK, your electrical bill might not get processed... but so it impacts on many other services too. Never before was there a need for the Municipalities to have massive stand-by systems for this kinda scenario. Bottom line - basic service delivery is also impacted. Did eskom think about that? Muni's not billing consumers, not gettign money, not able to pay the bulk electricity account.

Crisis in the making - fuel shortages. When do the refineries go into shutdown for maintenance? Leaving us powerless, fuel less, hopeless ?

Surely Eishkom should do emergency damage control and stop exporting. Shed the neighbours in time of need, not your own people. That will solve the crisis: 3000 mW spare during peak. We are the most industrialised country in this part of Africa, let those less fortunate live with this shedding.
 
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sandmanm34 said:
Actually pre 94 the voting public neither had a vote or electricity:D now they just have a vote... and electricity 20hours a day...
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And its not long before the "vote" is a zim-style one.
You can vote for whoever you like, as long as its Zuma.
And even if you don't, we will fix it for you.
 
An aquantance of mine works for OFM and earlier this week one of their presenters took an Eskom lackey to task on air about the current power failures. When repeatedly asked what Eskom were doing to rectify the situation he was stumped. No fekking clue.

Yesterday the station got a call from some Eskom big knob trying to strong arm them to 'stop painting Eksom in a negative light'

I've got news for you Eskom, no one needs to paint you in a negative light, you're doing just fine on your own!

I'm seriously considering not paying my bill this month. If Zim doesn't have to pay then I don't see any reason why I should have to either.

I know this won't actually solve the problem, but **** em, I'm saving up to get the **** out of dodge..
 
There's nothing the politicians and bureaucrats can do to speed up the construction of the new power stations although the hot air they generate could be viewed as an alternative energy source.
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ROFL :D
 
Eskom Capacity solution

Eskom is doing maintenance on the one unit at Koeberg resulting in a 5% shortage of capacity.
The public in SA use 14% of Eskoms total capacity.
The largest single user in SA is BHP Billiton
It's one Alluminium smelter employing less than 2000 people uses 8%
Shutting one factory down while maintenance is carried out would result in there being very few blackouts for the 45000000 other people in SA
 
Yes, but we havent got Eskoms balls in a vice with a contract that stipulates guaranteed, uninterrupted power...

Eskom don't give a flying **** about us, so long as they keep getting their pay checks it's all good to them..

Just out of interest, do the townships also suffer from power failures?
 
JamesR said:
Eskom is doing maintenance on the one unit at Koeberg resulting in a 5% shortage of capacity.
The public in SA use 14% of Eskoms total capacity.
The largest single user in SA is BHP Billiton
It's one Alluminium smelter employing less than 2000 people uses 8%
Shutting one factory down while maintenance is carried out would result in there being very few blackouts for the 45000000 other people in SA
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Unit 2. Means 900MW less on the grid.:(
Koeberg's maintenance schedules are set down by law from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), so Eskom hasn't much say in the matter.
Only thing is of concern is the time period. Read it was going to take between 3 and 4 months for maintenance. Usually it is about 2 months and about 3 to 4 days to phase into the National Grid.
 
schitz011 - I share the question. According to a mate of mine from JHB, regional radio never mentions that townships going off...... "Laat mens dink, nê!"
 
schitz011 said:
Yes, but we havent got Eskoms balls in a vice with a contract that stipulates guaranteed, uninterrupted power...

Eskom don't give a flying **** about us, so long as they keep getting their pay checks it's all good to them..

Just out of interest, do the townships also suffer from power failures?
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I guess if the townships had these "load shedding" problems COSATU would already have orginised a strike somewhere.
 
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