poweralert stage 2.....

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Load-shedding for at least five more years


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Good to see some real effort, but I'll be hesitant to trust their intentions and goals for a very long time.
 
So our LS started at 20:00 last night. Power has not returned since. Thankful for clear skies and and sunshine. So the solar is doing its thing.
 
Lupus said:
So yeah had my 2 to 4 again this morning... Seems Eskom isn't skipping again
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Bizarrely my 4am got cut rather short, switched back on at 5 instead of after 6 as planned. This was great as I would have had a lukewarm shower otherwise.
 

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.
www.eskom.co.za www.eskom.co.za
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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.
www.eskom.co.za www.eskom.co.za
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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...
www.eskom.co.za www.eskom.co.za
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Hourly renewable generation - Eskom Data Portal

Hourly renewable generation per resource type for the current and previous month. This only reflects renewable owned by Eskom or that Eskom has contracts with. Embedded generation is not included.
www.eskom.co.za www.eskom.co.za
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Our skipping also stopped. Just wondering if it'll change tonight with the again "needed" S4 - if so short lived I imagine, just until "normal" again on Wed.
 
Priapus said:
So our LS started at 20:00 last night. Power has not returned since. Thankful for clear skies and and sunshine. So the solar is doing its thing.
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Still out and it seems City Power don't know why - still "Investigating"
 
Lupus said:
How are your batteries overnight?
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Pretty decent. obviously depending on loads; they'll carry the house to sunrise - but will have to keep my son's wall panel heater off this evening, as that takes a fair amount of power and with it on, we won't make sunrise.
 
Priapus said:
Pretty decent. obviously depending on loads; they'll carry the house to sunrise - but will have to keep my son's wall panel heater off this evening, as that takes a fair amount of power and with it on, we won't make sunrise.
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It's not that cold really, should be ok not putting it on
 
Lupus said:
It's not that cold really, should be ok not putting it on
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Yeah, he'll be just fine without it this evening.
Having it on last night drained the batteries a fair amount; but I thought "Ah no worried, LS ends in an hour and we have enough juice"

Oops.
 
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