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with koeberg going offline, im sure loadshedding will kick in soon
 
tyerone said:
with koeberg going offline, im sure loadshedding will kick in soon
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Only one unit is going offline, this happens every 18months or so. Unit 1 went offline last year for 3 months for repairs and refueling.
 
Very strongly suspect load shedding is already happening just not nation wide.

Kya sands seems to have no power during work days, lights only on after hours and weekends only?
 
Lupus said:
Only one unit is going offline, this happens every 18months or so. Unit 1 went offline last year for 3 months for repairs and refueling.
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IIRC that was the plan, off in Jan back in march, but by end of june it was still offline and they ended up suspending koeberg manager over it :unsure:
 
I love the way they say "the power supply is under severe pressure. Please reduce your electricity usage". Like its OUR fault lol. NO its not, it's your inability to provide power after being lazy, incompetent and stealing everything that is the problem. Not our usage
 
Not often it's green on a Monday and it refreshed before 11am. It was all Orange with 7pm being red earlier
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The_Right_Honourable_Brit said:
It will be interesting to know if Unit 2 has in fact been taken offline (supposed to be today but let's see).
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If they did take it down, it normally takes a little while before it completely stops turning. The one good thing about steam turbines, being both coal or nuclear is that even when the fuel source stops there is still enough inertia in them to keep them spinning for a little while generating electricity for sometime, might be minutes or hours I guess depending on the size.
 
Just checking, but if it is red, that means load shedding? Or does red mean we are really close to load shedding?
 
Gnome said:
Just checking, but if it is red, that means load shedding? Or does red mean we are really close to load shedding?
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Red means we are close, black means we are shedding
 
Lupus said:
If they did take it down, it normally takes a little while before it completely stops turning. The one good thing about steam turbines, being both coal or nuclear is that even when the fuel source stops there is still enough inertia in them to keep them spinning for a little while generating electricity for sometime, might be minutes or hours I guess depending on the size.
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Won't that cause frequency variations in the supply? I'm no electrical engineer but I'd imagine they disconnect from the grid prior to shutdown.
 
Gtx Gaming said:
all looking good on poweralert atm
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Napalm2880 said:
Won't that cause frequency variations in the supply? I'm no electrical engineer but I'd imagine they disconnect from the grid prior to shutdown.
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Not sure, logically it would, but these aren't like our little petrol generators. So they probably do remove it from the grid safely and let it slow down. But that is one advantage of a turbine is that it doesn't automatically shutdown causing massive fluctuations to the grid if it goes down, it still spins down and the engineers can then make plans to stablise the grid.
So for planned outages they probably would switch it off the grid.
 
There we go, adjusted to not so good, we have three hours of red this evening.
 
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