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wingnut771 said:
Monday (2am+4pm) and wednesday (4am+8pm) I also have it twice a day.

I have a fan running off an inverter when I go to bed if there is overnight loadshitting (when I remember) so at least I don't wake up.
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I wake up because I have to turn everything off so some random load shedding surge doesn't destroy sht.
 
wingnut771 said:
How does 6 + 4 = 7? How many MW is stage 4 curtailment?

Stage 4 load curtailment: something they just made up? Waiting for tomorrows charts, want to see this "stage 4".
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No idea i just knew what the definition was today my area had 12 to 4:30pm and then 8 to 12:30 tonight

So ons is in kakstraat...

Solar working overtime now...
 
Back in Feb when they went over 7000MW shed there were some headlines about how this was really stage 7/8 and they later 'clarified' that they had done extra curtailment on industrial customers, I guess they're trying to get ahead of that now with that note. Pulling out all the stops to avoid announcing we're in stage 7 or 8 but it seems it's just a matter of time as we head into winter.
 
We have a friend at SA metal next time i see him i'll ask him i am sure he will know
 
wingnut771 said:
I've never bothered.
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In my area you have to. We seem to have some shitty connection. Every month or so we have an issue where the area goes down, and surges and sht occur when LS happens but that's happened maybe 5 or so times in the last 10 years.

But still I'm not going to Tata ma chance with that sht.
 
Vorastra said:
In my area you have to. We seem to have some shitty connection. Every month or so we have an issue where the area goes down, and surges and sht occur when LS happens but that's happened maybe 5 or so times in the last 10 years.

But still I'm not going to Tata ma chance with that sht.
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Bummer :( What area is that? Riverhorse area I think it was?
 
Parched said:
Back in Feb when they went over 7000MW shed there were some headlines about how this was really stage 7/8 and they later 'clarified' that they had done extra curtailment on industrial customers, I guess they're trying to get ahead of that now with that note. Pulling out all the stops to avoid announcing we're in stage 7 or 8 but it seems it's just a matter of time as we head into winter.
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I think we will have a couple of really cold days but I don't think we will see that 37gw peak this year. We might get up to 35gw with winter + Stage 5+ load shifting though, which will be a healthy Stage 11 with the current numbers.
 
Pak Fa Fui said:
Why go to load curtailment and not ramp up LS in Durban
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Because they will rather lose businesses money and hurt the economy and keep the ANC supporters in the area more content

I mean they can just not give any power to municipalities not paying their accounts but that would piss ANC supporters off...
 
I have 3x 4 hour slots tomorrow O.o 0400-0800, 1200-1600, 2000-0000... are we actually in stage 8 or is ESP bugging?
 
R13... said:
They're shedding 6000 so the balance must be this stage 4 curtailment. Give or take. Obvious?
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Curtailment means they "ask" heavy users to "cut down". In this context - how is stage 4 defined, what happens if those users don't comply and how many GW does "cut down" translate to?
 
DarkSt0rm said:
I think we will have a couple of really cold days but I don't think we will see that 37gw peak this year. We might get up to 35gw with winter + Stage 5+ load shifting though, which will be a healthy Stage 11 with the current numbers.
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Hasn't hit 37GW peak since 2011, why would it suddenly do so after 12 years? We last hit 35 in 2020
 
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