Outages at several units: Eskom

[rpm]

Outages at several units: Eskom

Less power generation capacity and outages at several units has led to the implementation of blackouts, Eskom said.

 

[grok]

Damn that Verwoerd for making electricity generation so hard!

 

[cybershark]

So all they doing is patching, waiting for the inevitable grid collapse?

 

[Compton_effect]

So all they doing is patching, waiting for the inevitable grid collapse?

That seems to be the plan.

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

Stage one allows for up to 1000MW of the national load to be cut, stage two for up to 2000MW, and stage three for up to 4000MW.

There's that line again...

 

[bwana]

There's that line again...

Just in case you missed it the first thousand times…

 

[Compton_effect]

So - question comes to mind. What would happen if some like minded individuals decided to minimize demand by removing high demand (Or low revenue) areas from the grid?
Just hypothetically - can anyone think of a industrial area, or residential area that could be taken off-grid with a few well placed events?