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Evening Peak Feedback 23/05/2022 17:52
Total demand: 33 275MW
Loadshedding: 2 100MW
Interruptible Load Supply: 894MW
Virtual Power Station: 260MW
OCGT's Utilised: 19 (13 Eskom, 6 IPP)
Renewable Gen: 453MW (Wind 226MW, CSP 227MW)
@Eskom_SA Available Generation Capacity: 31 004MW

Making over 31000mw atm, thing are looking better. Seems the diesel might arrived also
 
Gtx Gaming said:
Evening Peak Feedback 23/05/2022 17:52
Total demand: 33 275MW
Loadshedding: 2 100MW
Interruptible Load Supply: 894MW
Virtual Power Station: 260MW
OCGT's Utilised: 19 (13 Eskom, 6 IPP)
Renewable Gen: 453MW (Wind 226MW, CSP 227MW)
@Eskom_SA Available Generation Capacity: 31 004MW

Making over 31000mw atm, thing are looking better. Seems the diesel might arrived also
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Yeah technically with the Octgs, load shedding wasn't needed
 
Gtx Gaming said:
Evening Peak Feedback 23/05/2022 17:52
Total demand: 33 275MW
Loadshedding: 2 100MW
Interruptible Load Supply: 894MW
Virtual Power Station: 260MW
OCGT's Utilised: 19 (13 Eskom, 6 IPP)
Renewable Gen: 453MW (Wind 226MW, CSP 227MW)
@Eskom_SA Available Generation Capacity: 31 004MW

Making over 31000mw atm, thing are looking better. Seems the diesel might arrived also
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Again, Eskom base capacity is pretty impressive *in context* but yeah, demand is also really high. Doubt we'd be having evening LS in summer.

This is also without Koeberg Unit 2 or the other big Kusile unit, which are both due to come back in early June.
 
The_Right_Honourable_Brit said:
Again, Eskom base capacity is pretty impressive *in context* but yeah, demand is also really high. Doubt we'd be having evening LS in summer.

This is also without Koeberg Unit 2 or the other big Kusile unit, which are both due to come back in early June.
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Yup demand is high, normally only see it hitting 33GW in mid June through to August.
 
Evening Peak Feedback 25/05/2022 18:22 Total demand: 32 028MW Loadshedding: 2 100MW Virtual Power Station: 171MW Eskom OCGT's Utilised: 4 Renewable Gen: 956MW (Wind 700MW, CSP 256MW)
@Eskom_SA
Available Generation Capacity: 32 284MW
@EskomSpokesper1
 
The_Librarian said:
What is a virtual power station?

Ookfart-powered turbine?
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Virtua Power Station is a regulated mechanism in which Eskom can ask certain pre-agreed customers, the alluminium smelters really, to switch off power for about two hours when it has shortages. The customer gets compensated for the loss of production, at a rate approved by Nersa
 
Lupus said:
Virtual Power Station is a regulated mechanism in which Eskom can ask certain pre-agreed customers, the alluminium smelters really, to switch off power for about two hours when it has shortages. The customer gets compensated for the loss of production, at a rate approved by Nersa
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Ahhhh ok.... I thought it had something to do with generating power. So it is actually misleading.
 
The_Librarian said:
Ahhhh ok.... I thought it had something to do with generating power. So it is actually misleading.
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It is in the Eskom sense, in reality a VPS is a system that is used to control various energy sources to be able to be used when needed, this would included load reduction, wind, solar, hydro, etc... So you'd have a VPS handle all of those and be like one PS.
But Eskom uses it for one purpose only.
 
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