Loadshedding?

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Hi all

Found out that power was out between 0200 and 0445 this morning. Silverton x11, Pretoria.

Is Eishkom doing loadshedding on the sly?
 
The_Librarian said:
Hi all

Found out that power was out between 0200 and 0445 this morning. Silverton x11, Pretoria.

Is Eishkom doing loadshedding on the sly?
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I think they've been doing it all along. Happened here twice last week (North Riding) and there's a thread about power outages in the Norwood area as well.
I think the best clues are the times... You'd expect a real problem to happen at a random time... As per the OP... Like 2.12 and back on at 4.51, but I've noticed that that's rarely the case... Always an on the hour or half hour kinda thing????
 
We have had it happen a couple of times here too in Stellenbosch!

I have a client who has gone mostly offgrid, bought all of his stuff himself. Instead of paying R 29000 for an invertor, he paid R 13000. We are thinking of bringing some of that stuff in and selling it at a fraction of the price. Don't see why people should rip the $h1t out of people because we are tired of paying high prices for electricity. These people who charge sooooo much profit are as bad as EISHKOM!
 
Power AND Water

oom said:
We have had it happen a couple of times here too in Stellenbosch!
I have a client who has gone mostly offgrid, bought all of his stuff himself. Instead of paying R 29000 for an invertor, he paid R 13000. We are thinking of bringing some of that stuff in and selling it at a fraction of the price. Don't see why people should rip the $h1t out of people because we are tired of paying high prices for electricity. These people who charge sooooo much profit are as bad as EISHKOM!
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Power here where I am ( KZN ) has also been up and down lately day and night
Off last night at similar times as OP as well
NO water in the mornings either -- comes back at about 08h30

Think I need a system that uses solar power and deep cycle batteries and an inverter
but
The GOV has already stolen so much money from us , I do not know how one finds the ready cash for something like this ?
 
I have servers all over the country and Im definitely seeing loadshedding happening lately.
The UPS logs are showing outages at some random times of night and there are a whole bunch more of the "unexplained" outages during the day than there were in summer.
 
Power outages again today - Sydenham from early hours today 08/05/2013 till 06:45.
Power went out again about 09:15 in Glenhazel / Lyndhurst / Sydenham / Illovo based on calls from customers affected.

Power was out in these areas teo Saturday afternoons in a row on 20th and 27th April.
What is going on?
No official report of load shedding?
 
Tweet from JHB citypower
City Power Jhb ‏@CityPowerJhb 10m
Loss of Kelvin Power has led to major outages in the following areas;Houghton,Cydna, Bellevue,Observatory,Gresswold and Rosebank.
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People need to differentiate between load shedding - the scheduled implementation of rolling blackouts in order to keep the infrastructure from imploding - and plain ol' power outages brought on by decades of incompetence and maladministration. Load shedding would not happen at 3am...
 
HapticSimian said:
People need to differentiate between load shedding - the scheduled implementation of rolling blackouts in order to keep the infrastructure from imploding - and plain ol' power outages brought on by decades of incompetence and maladministration. Load shedding would not happen at 3am...
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Well i was not sure what time power went out, but based on the regular power failures over the last few weeks, it sure as hell feels like load shedding. Anyway, this is why I posted the tweet from City Power after my first post today, to correct the impression it was load shedding.:)
 
Electron1 said:
Well i was not sure what time power went out, but based on the regular power failures over the last few weeks, it sure as hell feels like load shedding. Anyway, this is why I posted the tweet from City Power after my first post today, to correct the impression it was load shedding.:)
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Wasn't said strictly in reference to your post...
 
Veiled questions on the radio about whether eskom employees are either involved in cabls theft or negligent about securing areas where planned maintenance is being carried out. They were working in the bergbron area doing maintenance and this is where the cable theft occurred.
 
I have to post this:
City Power Jhb ‏@CityPowerJhb 47m
Loss of Kelvin Power has led to major outages in the following areas;Houghton,Cydna, Bellevue,Observatory,Gresswold and Rosebank.
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Ms Twit ‏@aawtwit 42m
@CityPowerJhb hi - what does "loss of Kelvin Power" mean. Did the Power Station go somewhere? Did someone lose it? Did it explode?
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LOL
 
Commercial rd had power outages from like 6 pm till late and today in my area we had power outage from like 11 am to 12 I think since I was in the garden when it happened and yesterday at work they had a power surge disrupting my ups.
 
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