poweralert....

[DarkSt0rm]

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I'd still prefer to know exactly how ****ed I was lol ...

 

[Tinuva]

https://www.news24.com/fin24/econom...no-its-not-quite-as-bad-as-it-sounds-20230303

 

[Kung Fu Porkchop]

It is true that South Africa is preparing a plan to ration electricity, including up to what you could – but engineers would not – call stage Stage 16, and even beyond.

Are you f**king kidding me?

 

[Tinuva]

Are you f**king kidding me?

Where did you think this was going?
This is how it work in other countries where the grid is basically about to collapse.

 

[Mystic Twilight]

Are you f**king kidding me?

Stages can go up to about stage 30-40 odd, at that point you probably on a day based schedule instead of an hour based schedule for electricity rationing.

 

[Kung Fu Porkchop]

Where did you think this was going?
This is how it work in other countries where the grid is basically about to collapse.

Stages can go up to about stage 30-40 odd, at that point you probably on a day based schedule instead of an hour based schedule for electricity rationing.

 

[Brian_G]

 

[Brian_G]

From that article;

• South Africa now has a draft plan for electricity rationing that goes well beyond Stage 8, including what would amount to Stage 16.
• That doesn't mean Eskom is preparing to go above Stage 8, or that the electricity outlook has suddenly changed.

BUT...... it is said that extreme Leftists want to force the world into such power restrictions, to gain individual control. That's as close as you'll come to facts about this subject.

 

[Lupus]

Hmm according to the power alert we shouldn't even need Stage 4 tonight

 

[Gordon_R]

Stages can go up to about stage 30-40 odd, at that point you probably on a day based schedule instead of an hour based schedule for electricity rationing.

The current rotational load shedding conprises 16 zones with 2 hour slots in a 32 hour cycle. The formula of 1000MW per stage inducates that there is significant infrastructure not counted towards load shedding (16,000MW vs 25,000MW).

The present system has a mathematical limit of Stage 16, but practically speaking anything above Stage 8 becomes a diminishing spiral, as geysers, fridges and battery chargers kick on as soon as power resumes (4 hours off and 4 hours on).

 

[flytek]

Loadshedding residential areas at night can't do much either...fridges, geysers and batteries will wind up just using more electricity once it returns.

 

[DarkSt0rm]

Loadshedding residential areas at night can't do much either...fridges, geysers and batteries will wind up just using more electricity once it returns.

we saw that coming through pretty hectically at stage 6.

In other news, all data on dataportal is now out of date, so we are truly thumbsucking now...

 

[dualmeister]

Visited a friend earlier that has had zero load shedding so far since they on the same grid as Consol glass

 

[Temujin]

Visited a friend earlier that has had zero load shedding so far since they on the same grid as Consol glass

Yeah, its infuriating... I have one just out east'ish side, she hasn't had loadshedding since pre rona, something about some telkom/network/coms or something that needs to be up 100% of time or the universe blows up, cats start raining from the skies etc etc. I call bs and it must be a cadre living in area /shrug

 

[CrypticZA]

So last night at 3pm (1 hour into a loadshedding) looks like we had a wall jumper... Alarm got set off since we got beams outside, and we got solar so everything was fully charged and running, once deactivated the alarm armed response came and we went outside to check the property (smart move? maybe not but was 2 of us and armed response guy at gate)... 15 minutes after alarm was disarmed we heard our neighbours dogs go crazy like ape crazy and they only go like that when they hear sirens (there were none) so pretty sure there was someone taking advantage of loadshedding trying to steal some stuff out peoples gardens... Scary stuff ...

 

[The_Librarian]

So last night at 3pm (1 hour into a loadshedding) looks like we had a wall jumper... Alarm got set off since we got beams outside, and we got solar so everything was fully charged and running, once deactivated the alarm armed response came and we went outside to check the property (smart move? maybe not but was 2 of us and armed response guy at gate)... 15 minutes after alarm was disarmed we heard our neighbours dogs go crazy like ape crazy and they only go like that when they hear sirens (there were none) so pretty sure there was someone taking advantage of loadshedding trying to steal some stuff out peoples gardens... Scary stuff ...

Get some rabid Dobermans.

 

[wingnut771]

Get some rabid Dobermans.

Pitbull's have more rep.

 

[The_Librarian]

Pitbull's have more rep.

Sorry, and apologies. The dog scene in the first Resident Evil was the first thing that popped up in my memory indexing machine.

Pitbulls, whatever, as long as whatever you have do not play softly with ne'er-do-wells.

 

[Lupus]

Sorry, and apologies. The dog scene in the first Resident Evil was the first thing that popped up in my memory indexing machine.

Pitbulls, whatever, as long as whatever you have do not play softly with ne'er-do-wells.

Dobermans were the evil dogs of the 80s, then it was Rottweilers

 

[Grieta Thanburg]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1632355494672191489