poweralert stage 2.....

[Lupus]

IOL says quite a bit of diesel spending; R53m in a week; ANC hairdressers must eat?

https://www.iol.co.za/news/energy/eskoms-energy-availability-factor-has-breached-the-70-as-r53-million-spent-on-diesel-last-week-to-power-open-cycle-gas-turbines-f0bf5c7d-bc38-4b12-8ef9-536681e1a5a0

For the 3 days they used it at peaks? You do know that is one of their primary functions right? Even with the low usage in April they still managed R1.16 billion over that 5 weeks, so 53 million is actually a drop in comparison and means they barely used it.
The 70% EAF is in no way related to burning diesel.

 

[TheChamp]

It's all relative.

In April this year, Eskom spent R1.1 billion on OCGTs, producing 167.8 Gigawatt hours (GWh).

This was about 60% less than April 2023, when a staggering R3.1 billion was spent to produce 470.22GWh, the utility said.

Compare that to the R53m per week for this month.

 

[Lupus]

A 600MW drop

 

[wingnut771]

A 600MW drop
View attachment 1708793

All meaningless when they can just ramp up coal 4000MW in 3 hours.

 

[Lupus]

All meaningless when they can just ramp up coal 4000MW in 3 hours.

Hmmm generally this is a forecast...

 

[wingnut771]

Hmmm generally this is a forecast...

Do they throw bones? Coz, eskom is still only on last weeks data.

 

[Lupus]

Do they throw bones? Coz, eskom is still only on last weeks data.

Yes, special magical ones

 

[wingnut771]

The system, she is still down:

 

[Lupus]

The system, she is still down:
View attachment 1709505

It's to hide the diesel burn + the additional diesel OCGTs secretly built

 

[pkid]

It's to hide the diesel burn + the additional diesel OCGTs secretly built

It's so they can say EAF > 70%

 

[wingnut771]

It's to hide the diesel burn + the additional diesel OCGTs secretly built

I thought it was incompetence.

 

[Brian_G]

I've heard this is the main tool they use

 

[Lupus]

 

[wingnut771]

 

[wingnut771]

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

Eskom congratulating themselves on doing their job (again):

https://twitter.com/x/status/1791496890086772785

 

[dualmeister]

Wait until June.

 

[wbot]

Lekker, almost 40 hours without power where I live. It's becoming a weekly thing now. DA is just another version of ANC

 

[wingnut771]

Lekker, almost 40 hours without power where I live. It's becoming a weekly thing now. DA is just another version of ANC

Pretoria?

 

[wbot]

Pretoria?

Affirmative