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AlphaJohn said:
In my area, things seem to break on em 4-hour sessions.
I don't mind the LS if they guarantee them coming back, My Inverter has my back. Its those "days long" repairs I have a problem with.
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Yeah those 4 hour ones can cause some hiccups.
 
Are the loadshedding heavier due to breakdowns or so they can attempt to build a buffer for winter time? I'm assuming the former because this place is a joke
 
Slowestclock said:
Are the loadshedding heavier due to breakdowns or so they can attempt to build a buffer for winter time? I'm assuming the former because this place is a joke
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I'll assume the latter as the figures don't make sense too regularly, and with the anc fully in charge of Eskom and their more dishonest members involved in the mafia actions I'm sure they know what they're doing. Diesel throttling is another tool of theirs (de Ruyter told us their access to it is actually unlimited).

But the why could be other reasons. Like their masters' voice re international assistance.
 
Slowestclock said:
Are the loadshedding heavier due to breakdowns or so they can attempt to build a buffer for winter time? I'm assuming the former because this place is a joke
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Scheduled maintenance is higher during the summer months - I think Eskom's last statement was 4500MW out on scheduled maintenance (this is down from 6000-7000MW in late December/early January). It goes as low as 2000MW in the depths of winter, however, even with the maintenance schedule, if there won't so many damn unplanned breakdowns, there'd no LS at all. Scheduled maintenance is good, unscheduled maintenance = bad.
 
The_Right_Honourable_Brit said:
Scheduled maintenance is higher during the summer months - I think Eskom's last statement was 4500MW out on scheduled maintenance (this is down from 6000-7000MW in late December/early January). It goes as low as 2000MW in the depths of winter, however, even with the maintenance schedule, if there won't so many damn unplanned breakdowns, there'd no LS at all. Scheduled maintenance is good, unscheduled maintenance = bad.
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Well as per their media statement yesterday around 17000MW is due to breakdowns, 4000MW odd was scheduled maintenance... they basically running with 50% of their fleet... Its going to be a grim and cold winter... Plants seem to break every like 4 to 5 days basically...

Only thing that can save us is low demand... Their plants are just plan s***
 
Lupus said:
Yeah those 4 hour ones can cause some hiccups.
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In my neighbourhood the cellphone coverage goes completely. No internet, no SMS, no phone calls. The only thing one could do in an emergency is press the emergency button and hope the security company comes to investigate what is going on. A lot more places are getting into trouble with water because of load shedding. I don't think the general population realize how stuffed we going to be with long term with 5+ stage load shedding.
 
KatieKim said:
In my neighbourhood the cellphone coverage goes completely. No internet, no SMS, no phone calls. The only thing one could do in an emergency is press the emergency button and hope the security company comes to investigate what is going on. A lot more places are getting into trouble with water because of load shedding. I don't think the general population realize how stuffed we going to be with long term with 5+ stage load shedding.
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Yea crime during loadshedding picks up too and with the likes of cellphones and Internet down you screwed too... We have a solar system installed and someone jumped our wall in the middle of a loadshedding at 2.50am... Our batteries of our alarms were 100% so alarm went off and everyone shat their pants... But if your battery is dead they get in and you wake up to a gun to your head...
 
CrypticZA said:
Yea crime during loadshedding picks up too and with the likes of cellphones and Internet down you screwed too... We have a solar system installed and someone jumped our wall in the middle of a loadshedding at 2.50am... Our batteries of our alarms were 100% so alarm went off and everyone shat their pants... But if your battery is dead they get in and you wake up to a gun to your head...
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To add to this my work has a access control panel which we use finger prints to get into battery powered and it also starts to fail then people can just walk in with a gun and we kinda screwed... we are in a big building and all but yea safety has gone out the window
 
KatieKim said:
In my neighbourhood the cellphone coverage goes completely. No internet, no SMS, no phone calls. The only thing one could do in an emergency is press the emergency button and hope the security company comes to investigate what is going on. A lot more places are getting into trouble with water because of load shedding. I don't think the general population realize how stuffed we going to be with long term with 5+ stage load shedding.
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Yup same :-(, though MTN holds out a really long time and Vodacom a bit shorter, freaking FNB is out 90% of the time :-(
 
Scary times when you hear the likes of big companies like Discovery, Engen, Woolworths, etc are making disaster plans like moving key execs to overseas locations in the case of a total grid shutdown. I know it's "hopefully" unlikely, and the big corporates do need to plan, but holy mackerel it's scary. Hoping it doesn't happen and they get some sort of leadership after the departure of de Ruyter.
 
DarkSt0rm said:
Nope, welcome to South Africa in 2023. Things are only going to get worse. I spent the day with my CFO and the finance guys, and they have shown me some pretty ****ing terrifying projections
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So, what are they projecting?
 
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