Possible Load Shedding

Medupi will be welcomed. However many transmission projects related to the system stability have been deferred. So even if Medupi did finish today it will be under utilised.
 
HavocXphere said:
Nobody is asking you to lower your standards. But I'd expect people to see that the capacity constraint is a done deal. The question that remains is how we deal with it. Everyone can refuse to lower there usage...and then we're stuck with lots of candlelight dinner with cold baked beans. High five. Great success. We really showed them who is boss. :rolleyes:

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They're building 3 flippin massive powerplants. I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess they aren't aiming at forcing an artificially low capacity.
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And taking their sweet time about it. The lower the perceived need for more power, the lower the urgency to get the new power stations live. I see it a similar way companies work with annual budgets. You didn't spend your full budget this year? Next year we'll lower it regardless of whatever the year may bring. It's a bit of a damned if you do, damned if you don't, so why do?
 
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Constrained Power System

The power system is severely constrained, more so today, due to the unavailability of
additional generating units.

Let’s switch off air-conditioners, geysers, pool pumps and all non-essential appliances especially
between 5pm and 9pm tonight when we experience a peak in the demand for electricity.
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I would just like to take this opportunity to thank all you South African Taxpayers for my ice cold office..... hell! It's warm up here in the Namib, and without all your glorious electricity I would have been in a bit of a pickle....

I thank you.......

:whistle:
 
Telling home users to switch off lights and pool pumps is about as useful as putting a plaster on the guy standing next to where Fat Man went off. It does sweet f-all, just makes ppl feel better...

The argument that ''I'm not switching off, screw them!'' is also retarded... They don't give a flying ****, they'll let half the country black out and drive off in their S-class to their house running on generators paid for by your money.

Short answer, don't bother turning off it does nothing but don't pretend you're an anarchist fighting for change... Beat your head against a wall rather, you'll lose a few calories.
 
So if switching off does nothing, and saying screw them does nothing .. why even comment when we specifically choose to ignore Eskom and continue as normal because their alerts apparently means nothing?
 
evilstebunny said:
So if switching off does nothing, and saying screw them does nothing .. why even comment when we specifically choose to ignore Eskom and continue as normal because their alerts apparently means nothing?
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Because this is a forum and is specifically designed for comments and I felt like it. There was a poster saying to listen to the warnings and another pretending to be in Anonymous, I'm pointing out that either mentality is useless.

HavocXphere said:
How do you figure that?
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The power saved by the tiny minority that pay any attention is so minuscule that it's pointless. Just makes the public feel better that Eskom is doing something when they're actually doing nothing.
 
ScottulusMaximus said:
The power saved by the tiny minority that pay any attention is so minuscule that it's pointless. Just makes the public feel better that Eskom is doing something when they're actually doing nothing.
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Its not about saving power...its about moving it out of peak period.

e.g. Suppose we want an extra 5% safety buffer...which is a lot given that the grid currently runs near zero buffer during peak. 5% equates to about 1.9MW. Thats <1500 pool pumps that need to be switched off / put on a timer. Or about 750 geysers. Hardly an impossible number given a population of like 50 mil.
 
HavocXphere said:
Its not about saving power...its about moving it out of peak period.

e.g. Suppose we want an extra 5% safety buffer...which is a lot given that the grid currently runs near zero buffer during peak. 5% equates to about 1.9MW. Thats <1500 pool pumps that need to be switched off / put on a timer. Or about 750 geysers. Hardly an impossible number given a population of like 50 mil.
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Your maths is a bit out, a 5% buffer is 2000MW which is 2 000 000kW, a pool pump is about 1kW so 2 MILLION pool pumps will have to be switched off.

While I agree moving stuff out of peak will help, putting little alerts on peoples TV's to pretend to be doing something is a complete waste of time and effort.
 
Eish you're right...GW is 9 zeros. :/

ScottulusMaximus said:
While I agree moving stuff out of peak will help, putting little alerts on peoples TV's to pretend to be doing something is a complete waste of time and effort.
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Well how else are we going to move stuff off peak if not TV? Ignoring the industrial side which is full of contracts. Short of magically completing the plants early I don't seem many options aside from influencing consumer behaviour.
 
HavocXphere said:
Eish you're right...GW is 9 zeros. :/


Well how else are we going to move stuff off peak if not TV? Ignoring the industrial side which is full of contracts. Short of magically completing the plants early I don't seem many options aside from influencing consumer behaviour.
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Simple answer is that you can't, they shouldn't have ****ed up in the first place by appointing incompetent arses from the gravy train. Consumer behavior is NOT going to change, pretending they're doing something by trying is what pisses me off.

It's a sign of the bigger picture.. I've been through all this **** in zim, SA is on EXACTLY the same path. People who deny it have their heads in the sand, only radical change will fix anything and I don't see it coming from anywhere.
 
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