Loadshedding - Tuesday, 21 April 2015 [Stage 1 from 5-10pm]

[lived666]

Probably out of spares.

Actually out of people.
Called them at one, they said waiting for additional labour - ok...so someone was out to lunch, anyhow back on at just after 2, until they decide to go **** you **** you have had power for 2 hours thats enough for today.

 

[Bar0n]

I sent a strongly worded letter to them. True story!

Wet ink letter? You have too much time in your old age.

 

[Zewp]

Well, at least it's not constant stage 2 and 3 like last week. Small mercies and all that...

 

[sybertiger]

agg K@K man

alweer af 20:00 :/

 

[heartbroken]

agg K@K man

alweer af 20:00 :/

Jip, I need to rush to make dinner, otherwise it will be a slice of bread again tonight.

 

[bwana]

I sent a strongly worded letter to them. True story!

Why? Because they spelt geezer wrong?

 

[MickeyD]

Why? Because they spelt geezer wrong?

Basically poor form from their communications department. They were very quick to post the Stage 1 notice on all social media platforms and even have it announced on local radio stations but they messed up the times.

Their control centre and their customer care centre both confirmed that the notice clearly stated Stage 1 from 17h00, which would take down Group 7 first.

The message broadcast far and wide was Stage 1 from 18h00, starting with Group 1.

Small things but the communications director gets paid a moer of a lot of money by the ratepayers and spends far too much time fighting political battles on facebook and twitter, all the while failing in his real job.

 

[JayM]

No load shedding today, but I'm getting an input of only 200V - is this dangerous to appliances? Picked this up when my microwave sounded a bit 'off' and my UPS shows 200V.

 

[MickeyD]

No load shedding today, but I'm getting an input of only 200V - is this dangerous to appliances? Picked this up when my microwave sounded a bit 'off' and my UPS shows 200V.

Most definitely!

 

[cavedog]

So I suspect we might see Stage 1 loadshedding earlier tomorrow.... Maybe I'm completely wrong but when they updated www.poweralert.co.za the prediction placed the grid in yellow status from 00:00 to 5am..... It is usually green that time and starts going yellow from 6-7am then red. Now it is red from 5am already that does not look good. The same trend was showing when we had stage 2 from 6am to 10pm.

Notice the small green portion from 11pm to 00:00 which could indicate they are taking a unit off for planned maintenance?

Maybe I'm just totally off the ball here but I suspect loadshedding much earlier than just the evening peak for tomorrow....

 

[Gordon_R]

So I suspect we might see Stage 1 loadshedding earlier tomorrow.... Maybe I'm completely wrong but when they updated www.poweralert.co.za the prediction placed the grid in yellow status from 00:00 to 5am..... It is usually green that time and starts going yellow from 6-7am then red. Now it is red from 5am already that does not look good. The same trend was showing when we had stage 2 from 6am to 10pm.

Notice the small green portion from 11pm to 00:00 which could indicate they are taking a unit off for planned maintenance?

Maybe I'm just totally off the ball here but I suspect loadshedding much earlier than just the evening peak for tomorrow....

Interesting observation! I hadn't noticed that myself (though I do monitor that graph). In the absence of any more specific details (MW), poweralert.co.za is the only 'window' we have into Eskom's daily performance. IMO it's difficult to extrapolate from one day's data, since Eskom has to juggle diesel stocks, pumped storage capacity, and planned maintenance.

 

[Tinuva]

I see the bars on poweralert is in direct html code, at least the length and color. Wonder if anyone will go as far as to crawl that page every hour and start dumping the data into a DB and start analytics over longer periods of time.