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Looks like the whole of maritzburg is out. Must be a major fault. Sorry for if that was a dumb thing to ask. I'm expecting that national outage to come around any day now.
 
Arksun said:
Looks like the whole of maritzburg is out. Must be a major fault. Sorry for if that was a dumb thing to ask. I'm expecting that national outage to come around any day now.
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Sometimes its a smaller problem than you think.
Sunday evening around 10 our power went off. Not load shedding. As far as I could see outside everywhere was off. On Tshwane outage map it showed the whole PTA and Centurion is off.
People shared on community groups videos of huge electric flashes km’s away. We thought we would be out for days. Within an hour we were restored and areas next to us also within a few hours.
I have read nothing about this and don't even know if that whole off PTA outage map was correct
 
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Arksun said:
Looks like the whole of maritzburg is out. Must be a major fault. Sorry for if that was a dumb thing to ask. I'm expecting that national outage to come around any day now.
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Very unlikely, the team that prevents that is the best, maybe only good thing about Eskom. Highly qualified and equipped.
 
Brian_G said:
Very unlikely, the team that prevents that is the best, maybe only good thing about Eskom. Highly qualified and equipped.
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Do you know them? It's not entirely up to them however. Sure the system operator keeps an eye on the grid, generation and demand but others are involved in the loop who can screw it up.
 
R13... said:
Do you know them? It's not entirely up to them however. Sure the system operator keeps an eye on the grid, generation and demand but others are involved in the loop who can screw it up.
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No personal involvement. I believe the info we've had on this thread about it, especially from @Gordon_R
Agree others can screw up, but the system guys have final and quick control over the whole operation and what may need isolation. There's an article somewhere.
 
Pak Fa Fui said:
We need to curb demand, generation is slow and we need to do our part, demand increased by 2000mw in 3 days
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You know that green switch on your DB board? Please do us a favour and flick it permanently into an OFF position.
It will be really helpful.
 
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Photos – Inside Eskom’s control centre during load-shedding

MyBroadband was recently invited to Eskom’s Megawatt Park head office for an overview on how the utility manages the country’s power system to prevent a national blackout.
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Some paragraphs from the article (which includes photos);

In order to keep the power system in balance, the generation output is changed every four seconds to match customer demand.

Eskom said that the team managing the broader system that falls under the system operator is much larger than just those within the National Control Centre.

It is made up of around 400 people, which includes engineers, technicians, and computer scientists, working across the sectors of national control, technical operations, the grid code, and demand response.

Most of these employees have either BTech or BSc qualifications, Eskom said.


Aside from the highly skilled workforce that helps monitor the system, Eskom employs Energy Management System software that can perform automatic load-shedding in cases of severe, unforeseen capacity loss.

In order to ensure that changes can be implemented without delay, the utility even has its own dedicated telecommunications network – which it said was bigger than any of the mobile network operators’.

“If the guy in the control room pushes the button to open a breaker in Cape Town, he does so on the telecommunications network,” Eskom said.


Eskom’s general manager for production showed us that he was capable of viewing the exact status of each power plant’s various components – including turbines and extractor fans – directly from his office.
 
Brian_G said:
@Arksun @"D" @R13...

mybroadband.co.za

Photos – Inside Eskom’s control centre during load-shedding

MyBroadband was recently invited to Eskom’s Megawatt Park head office for an overview on how the utility manages the country’s power system to prevent a national blackout.
mybroadband.co.za mybroadband.co.za

Some paragraphs from the article (which includes photos);

In order to keep the power system in balance, the generation output is changed every four seconds to match customer demand.

Eskom said that the team managing the broader system that falls under the system operator is much larger than just those within the National Control Centre.

It is made up of around 400 people, which includes engineers, technicians, and computer scientists, working across the sectors of national control, technical operations, the grid code, and demand response.

Most of these employees have either BTech or BSc qualifications, Eskom said.


Aside from the highly skilled workforce that helps monitor the system, Eskom employs Energy Management System software that can perform automatic load-shedding in cases of severe, unforeseen capacity loss.

In order to ensure that changes can be implemented without delay, the utility even has its own dedicated telecommunications network – which it said was bigger than any of the mobile network operators’.

“If the guy in the control room pushes the button to open a breaker in Cape Town, he does so on the telecommunications network,” Eskom said.


Eskom’s general manager for production showed us that he was capable of viewing the exact status of each power plant’s various components – including turbines and extractor fans – directly from his office.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!

Sure... In their dreams maybe.
 
Arksun said:
Looks like the whole of maritzburg is out. Must be a major fault. Sorry for if that was a dumb thing to ask. I'm expecting that national outage to come around any day now.
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Now?

Edit: sorry, meant to ask if PMB still doesn't have power?
 
Brian_G said:
So even their stretching to use past figures is exaggerated by about 2 GW. Doesn't say much for their regular performance reports.
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The scary thing is the reports are all available going back to the the 80s.
 

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If demand shot up to 37GW - as he says; we'd be in for a world of hurt, for sure. 37-24=13 (stage 7(8))
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Don't see 38 there from 2007 to 2022
 
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