Poweralert Stage 3 (old news)

[Lupus]

Is that because the economy is crashing faster than generation is collapsing?

A little bit of both

 

[Lupus]

Now for the other side of the coin - individual area problems.

My brother lives in Linksfield Ridge, northern Jo'burg. I've just heard yesterday that they've been having power cuts similar to loadshedding on a daily basis as their substation is on the edge. He says it's usually worse than the attempt to schedule it.

Yeah he's on one of the load reduction zones.

 

[Brian_G]

Yeah he's on one of the load reduction zones.

I thought so too, he says he thinks not. It's an upmarket area so doubtful.

 

[Brian_G]

Linksfield Ridge is block 13, not on the load reduction list.

Jo'burg blocks affected mentioned here: https://mydorpie.com/m/?page=loadshedding_citypower_group9_today

 

[wingnut771]

No, it's not, might not be growing at the desired rate but it is definitely not crashing.

Tell that to Lichtenburg:

South African town collapsing in front of everyone’s eyes

No electricity for days. No water for weeks. A burned-down city hall. Collapsing infrastructure. Roads turning into gravel. Gross mismanagement and corruption.

businesstech.co.za

 

[TheChamp]

Tell that to Lichtenburg:

South African town collapsing in front of everyone’s eyes

No electricity for days. No water for weeks. A burned-down city hall. Collapsing infrastructure. Roads turning into gravel. Gross mismanagement and corruption.

businesstech.co.za

Does that refute the fact that the economy is growing or what is the point?

 

[Brian_G]

Does that refute the fact that the economy is growing or what is the point?

Well if I was the wonderful DA & co., would have had emergency personnel and services there a long time ago. But hey, whatever..

 

[wingnut771]

Does that refute the fact that the economy is growing or what is the point?

I don't class 0.00001% growth as growing.

 

[Lupus]

Linksfield Ridge is block 13, not on the load reduction list.

Jo'burg blocks affected mentioned here: https://mydorpie.com/m/?page=loadshedding_citypower_group9_today

Yeah it is, Block 3

 

[Brian_G]

Yeah it is, Block 3
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Lol, I was looking at the Dec '23 list of blocks from Shitty Power, but it gets worse.... their last(?) Jan '24 "version 6" list then says it's in block 8, which also isn't a load reduction block.

Unbelievable!



But I presume your list is more recent.

 

[Brian_G]

Load reduction is supposed to be just for those areas that are largely not paying, last I heard. More lies then?

 

[Lupus]

Lol, I was looking at the Dec '23 list of blocks from Shitty Power, but it gets worse.... their last(?) Jan '24 "version 6" list then says it's in block 8, which also isn't a load reduction block.

Unbelievable!

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But I presume your list is more recent.

Load shedding and Load reduction blocks are not the same

 

[Lupus]

Load reduction is supposed to be just for those areas that are largely not paying, last I heard. More lies then?

Sadly that area is right next to areas that don't pay :-(

 

[semaphore]

Does that refute the fact that the economy is growing or what is the point?

I feel sorry for any company you have to do calculations for.

 

[TheChamp]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1859444932173316116

 

[Lupus]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1859444932173316116

Ah the good old days... Wait

 

[Lupus]

I mean look at that EAF keep going down

This guy was a renewable shill

 

[wingnut771]

 

[Lupus]

Ah memories, first Xmas and new years eve with Load Shedding


Though I mean to be fair Xmas was only till 5am, so we had the 25th 5am to 5am no shedding
Was surprised that 2023 was so much better.

 

[Brian_G]

New weirdness been going on at my house for the last few weeks. Some days, especially when hot, it looks like we get less power.
Freezers aren't cold enough. Maybe microwave needs a bit longer, certainly doesn't sound right.
And then the toaster - needs at least 50% further toasting even at full blast. Yet in the beginning it sometimes burnt the toast.
And two fans we use, you can hear the change in pitch on both of them.

It's a sensitive substation, went down again last week for about 14 hours. So possible they're trying to somehow throttle it and aircons in the area have an effect (we don't use one).

Haven't checked the voltage flow, no point really. Anyway I think they're throttling the current.