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wingnut771
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Station build-up for the last 7 days - Eskom Data Portal
This shows how resources were used to build-up the demand over the past 7 days, and it includes both generation and demand side resources that Eskom has contracts with.
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System hourly demand and available capacity - Eskom Data Portal
Hourly demand is compared against available capacity, to indicate the amount of surplus/shortfall there was. Available capacity must be matched with the total RSA contracted demand.
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Pumped storage generating hours, gas generation & manual load reduction - Eskom Data Portal
The graph below indicates how primary fuel consrained resources where utilized during the past 7 days. Pump storage Gen Unit Hours is the amount of hours that one unit at a pump storage station can generate based on the amount of water still available in the dams. These dams are required to be...
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cold weather : *goes brrr, produces moar coldz*
eskom : eish, cold weather
eskom : *k@ks*
eskom : *switches on loadshedding*
eskom : eish, cold weather
eskom : *k@ks*
eskom : *switches on loadshedding*
Lupus
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There is that possibility yes
Ugh. I'm just getting on with my day in future, enough of their nonsense..
pinball wizard
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I live my life knowing that it's always stage 6 and prepare accordingly.
Nom Chompsky
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Hmmm...not very green is it?
Ah ha...
Ah ha...
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All the warnings but they never get the blackouts
Farkin brits and their 'heat waves'... 20min to melt ice cream in the sun
Kung Fu Porkchop
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They call that hot?!Farkin brits and their 'heat waves'... 20min to melt ice cream in the sun
Remind me to never move there
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Not surprised, what with this cold weather.
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Not demand that's the issue, looks like generation, but it is only a forecast
Farkin brits and their 'heat waves'... 20min to melt ice cream in the sun
The problem is; we're so used to the African sun - so to us, 25c is just an average day. 30c is a little warm.
The UK has below 20c temps for most of the year and down to past -0c - which we do not have very often.
So, whilst you may mock; it's all relative. To them, they are having a heatwave and it is very hot for them. They're not used to such temps and neither are homes built of such temps.
When my wife moved out to SA - she would have her bathing suit out, in the middle of winter at 15c because "its hot" whilst I would be freezing my nips off.
Today, anything below 20c is cold to her - because she has adapted.
People in Nevada will laugh at us when we're saying 37c is too hot and a heatwave, When to them, it's just a normal day in July.
So, to me it seems silly to mock the British for moaning about the heatwave.
Good. Stay here then and don't bitch and moan about it being too hot in Nevada at near 40c temps if you ever go there.
porchrat
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I mean let's be honest here... they're talking about firing up a single coal power station temporarily to meet an unusually high bit of demand for a short period.
Which seems completely reasonable. And demonstrates how much spare capacity they have. Whilst we can't even meet demand for 90% of the year at the moment.
porchrat
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Exactly. It's also incredibly green relative to the way SA, China and the USA run their grids. They do this as an absolute last resort for as short a period as possible.
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