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1nsane! said:
So with these new smart prepaid meters that are being rolled out, they state that they can cut your power if your usage is too high... Theoretically this will also allow them to loadshed the homes in the areas that are currently exempt, due to critical infrastructure in the area.

Also shed load on a more granular level, by switching off the homes, but keeping the street lights on. Am I giving them too much credit?
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This will probably be the best/only near term solution imo. Adding thousands of megawatts of capacity probably isn't going to happen within the next 10 years so the best thing they can do is look at creative ways to reduce demand. They could perhaps rig up some sort of way so that during load shedding hours usage will be capped at 1kw/hour. This is enough for most people to keep lights, wifi, tv, etc runnnig.
 
Paulsie said:
Does anyone know how many OCGTs and GTs there are in total??
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14 diesel, 6 keresone , 6 IPP natural gas.
9 at Ankerlig 4, 148MW, 5, 147MW, Gourikwa 5, 2 148MW, 3 147MW.
Port Rex and Acacia both have 3 57MW generators
The IPP plants are 6 and each are roughly 150MW each
 
Lupus said:
14 diesel, 6 keresone , 6 IPP natural gas.
9 at Ankerlig 4, 148MW, 5, 147MW, Gourikwa 5, 2 148MW, 3 147MW.
Port Rex and Acacia both have 3 57MW generators
The IPP plants are 6 and each are roughly 150MW each
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Where does the natural gas come from?
 
wingnut771 said:
Where does the natural gas come from?
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Ask the ipps? Seems they can use gas or diesel.
www.gem.wiki

Avon power station

Avon power station is an operating power station of at least 670-megawatts (MW) in Ballito, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
www.gem.wiki www.gem.wiki
It's twin is Dedisa which only does 335MW. There is a small ipp in Newcastle that uses gas think it's only 140
 
Lupus said:
Ask the ipps? Seems they can use gas or diesel.
www.gem.wiki

Avon power station

Avon power station is an operating power station of at least 670-megawatts (MW) in Ballito, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
www.gem.wiki www.gem.wiki
It's twin is Dedisa which only does 335MW. There is a small ipp in Newcastle that uses gas think it's only 140
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What an odd place to have it in Ballito.
 
The_Right_Honourable_Brit said:
The workers who are working around the clock (I see that is the new phrase slipped into all press statements) are seemingly breaking things rather than fixing things. Note that NONE of the 9 generators that tripped on Monday afternoon have been fixed (I'm assuming it's the same generator if the same power station was mentioned between Monday and now).
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A bit of a disconcerting trend is the increased time its taking on average to return units after breakdowns. Nothing that broke down last week has been returned to service as far as I know.
 
DarkSt0rm said:
A bit of a disconcerting trend is the increased time its taking on average to return units after breakdowns. Nothing that broke down last week has been returned to service as far as I know.
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Yes, this seems to be something new.

Strange given their fears about the elections, unless they've given up some of their 50% dreams now.
Then again, this week's Carte Blanche came to the conclusion that they just don't care - it was estimated that to fix our national roads' potholes would take half a trillion rand...
 
Brian_G said:
Yes, this seems to be something new.

Strange given their fears about the elections, unless they've given up some of their 50% dreams now.
Then again, this week's Carte Blanche came to the conclusion that they just don't care - it was estimated that to fix our national roads' potholes would take half a trillion rand...
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I don't think it's not that don't they care. You can only duct tape so much.
 
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