poweralert....

[Düber]

We had a scheduled loadshed at 4am, power still not back since then.

My solar and batteries can't come fast enough.

 

[Lupus]

How many days have we gone without load shedding from October? Think the current "run" has been going since September even earlier

1

 

[wingnut771]

1

Xmas day iirc

 

[wingnut771]

LOL - we lose 2500MW in a few hours.

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

 

[Heisenborg]

Yawn

 

[pstation]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1619770451760410624

 

[wingnut771]

stage 6 loading.

 

[Heisenborg]

stage 6 loading.

Like i said. Yawn

 

[wingnut771]

Like i said. Yawn

Should I wake you when we get to stage 8?

 

[Vox Populi Vox Dei]

I'm curious about this comment from De Ruyter - it's an oddly specific number...I'm guessing it's referring to planned maintenance rather than new capacity:

Load shedding relief: Outgoing Eskom CEO Andre De Ruyter has hinted that South Africans could see some load shedding relief by the end of March. Speaking to the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa), De Ruyter said that 1,862MW will return to the grid by the end of March – roughly equivalent to two stages of load shedding.

5 important things happening in South Africa today

De Ruyter hints at load shedding relief; concerns over rising crime during power outages; South Africans urged to bury their kin within four days; US Treasury secretary to meet with Ramaphosa.

businesstech.co.za

 

[Gtx Gaming]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1619770451760410624

Lots of diesel for a sunday

 

[wingnut771]

I'm curious about this comment from De Ruyter - it's an oddly specific number...I'm guessing it's referring to planned maintenance rather than new capacity:

5 important things happening in South Africa today

De Ruyter hints at load shedding relief; concerns over rising crime during power outages; South Africans urged to bury their kin within four days; US Treasury secretary to meet with Ramaphosa.

businesstech.co.za

probably the units meant for winter coming back online. the relief will be short lived when the winter demand increases.

 

[wingnut771]

Lots of diesel for a sunday

stage 7 loading

 

[The_Librarian]

somebody's playing silly buggers

power at work went out at 0400 and came back on at 0900

.!.. stick to the schedule, and do loadshed the anc fatcats.

 

[Lupus]

Lots of diesel for a sunday

Not really, it's one plant, the IPP uses gas

 

[vaakseun]

Not really, it's one plant, the IPP uses gas

Sundays are for refueling the Eskom diesel OCGT's and pumped storage. Would be a hellavu week ahead if they were burning diesel on a Sunday instead of refueling.

 

[Lupus]

Sundays are for refueling the Eskom diesel OCGT's and pumped storage. Would be a hellavu week ahead if they were burning diesel on a Sunday instead of refueling.

They burnt it last week Sunday, sadly we're in the desperation phase :-( also 6 out of 20 OCGTS of Eskoms isn't a lot, that is 900MW

 

[wingnut771]

They burnt it last week Sunday, sadly we're in the desperation phase :-( also 6 out of 20 OCGTS of Eskoms isn't a lot, that is 900MW

If eskom used all 20, the diesel would run out in a day or 2.

 

[Lupus]

If eskom used all 20, the diesel would run out in a day or 2.

Well not really only 12 are diesel the other 8 are keresone

 

[AlphaJohn]

Oh fK!!!!!