Permanent Stage 2 load shedding an option - but Eskom decided against it, for now

[wingnut771]

Load shedding has been a part of SA for 14 years and the ANC's voters have been perfectly fine with it.

It is already permanent.

I can just imagine the smoke coming out their ears these days.

 

[porchrat]

I can just imagine the smoke coming out their ears these days.

Why?

They had no power before ANC... now they have like 12-18h of power a day... and many don't even have to pay for it.

 

[Herr der Verboten]

Why?

They had no power before ANC... now they have like 12-18h of power a day... and many don't even have to pay for it.

But did they have power before Jan?

 

[R13...]

Why?

They had no power before ANC... now they have like 12-18h of power a day... and many don't even have to pay for it.

LOL. Yeah for most people even an hour a day would be an improvement over the before time.

 

[konfab]

Solar won't keep them off Eskom either. They'll need those huge ass batteries to be off Eskom and possible other sources in the mix, but a small town like that should manage it in time.

Let see:

Just 12 months later, the town was generating 841 KW of electricity per hour -- almost enough to power half the town and surrounding farms growing corn, wheat and nuts, local authorities say.

https://www.iol.co.za/news/environm...ar-power-b987928f-3338-4452-964c-4c5e97e185aa

So they need about 2000 KW of power for now (I am rounding up, but that is fine in calculations like this).

Iron flow batteries are about the cheapest and most reliable tech there is for grid storage

No one is suggesting the ESS iron flow batteries are the only solution to energy storage, but at a projected cost of around $25 per kilowatt-hour, they clearly should be part of the mix of available energy storage technologies.
https://cleantechnica.com/2021/10/07/first-ess-iron-flow-battery-to-go-online-this-month/

To get 12 hours of storage is 24000kWh

That is $600 000 USD, or R10 million.

Not that much tbh. If they have 2500 residents, it is R4238 per resident.

And after that they can have absolutely minimal rates (like enough to pay for maintenance and replacement).

 

[wingnut771]

LOL. Yeah for most people even an hour a day would be an improvement over the before time.

I doubt most even remember the "before" time.

 

[porchrat]

But did they have power before Jan?

Nobody alive today was alive before Jan.

In contrast, within living memory, the average South African didn't have power under Apartheid.

I think a significant portion of the South African population is not educated enough to make the connection between loadshedding and the economic destruction happening around them. They just see that they have electricity now so all is good.

 

[wingnut771]

Why?

They had no power before ANC... now they have like 12-18h of power a day... and many don't even have to pay for it.

People have short memories.

 

[porchrat]

People have short memories.

Judging by the scale of the ongoing decay in these dysfunctional municipalities across the country I'd say they have longer memories than you give them credit for.

 

[Temujin]

Load shedding has been a part of SA for 14 years and the ANC's voters have been perfectly fine with it.

It is already permanent.

For now people are happy to do nothing during ls and get paid, but **** is coming, businesses are bleeding and factories will leave(and will be wmc fault again)

 

[Herr der Verboten]

Nobody alive today was alive before Jan.

In contrast, within living memory, the average South African didn't have power under Apartheid.

I think a significant portion of the South African population is not educated enough to make the connection between loadshedding and the economic destruction happening around them. They just see that they have electricity now so all is good.

Lies. Surely malema was alive to witness the land being stolen.

 

[Cactus]

I can just imagine the smoke coming out their ears these days.

Do you mean like electronic components? Once the smoke comes out of the component, it stops working?

 

[Herr der Verboten]

People have short memories.

Plot twist: selective beneficial flip-flop memories.

 

[G'Wobblez]

the ashats are gathered at the CSIR..
Just putting it out there