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Theory: As well as everything else going on, De Ruyter quietly uses LS periods as an opportunity to get extra repairs done.
If so, bad thing or good thing, not sure?
 
Brian_G said:
Theory: As well as everything else going on, De Ruyter quietly uses LS periods as an opportunity to get extra repairs done.
If so, bad thing or good thing, not sure?
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Well, they have to do repairs to get out of load shedding don't they? But no, they don't do "extra" repairs outside of what is broken causing LS plus the ongoing planned maintenance.
 
Brian_G said:
Theory: As well as everything else going on, De Ruyter quietly uses LS periods as an opportunity to get extra repairs done.
If so, bad thing or good thing, not sure?
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Kind of doubt, the type of repairs these machines need probably aren't completed in a day, instead need many continuous days. Since we don't have constant load shedding and definitely don't have the energy generation buffer to offline units, it implies the machines are in use. Load reduction on the other hand is a different story.
 
Mystic Twilight said:
Kind of doubt, the type of repairs these machines need probably aren't completed in a day, instead need many continuous days. Since we don't have constant load shedding and definitely don't have the energy generation buffer to offline units, it implies the machines are in use. Load reduction on the other hand is a different story.
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Load reduction is done on the local grids of areas with high usage, when those areas do go down the people there tend to riot, burn things and show their disgust, so Eskom realised that sometimes just reduce the load on those to prevent damage and longer outages.
 
I don't want to brag but I may have a lot to do with the lack of loadshedding. I just spent a lot of money on a proper solar system and suddenly the grid is fine.
Same thing happened when I bought crypto. It plummeted. If I sell it all today it will quadruple within a week, guaranteed.
 
zeb said:
I don't want to brag but I may have a lot to do with the lack of loadshedding. I just spent a lot of money on a proper solar system and suddenly the grid is fine.
Same thing happened when I bought crypto. It plummeted. If I sell it all today it will quadruple within a week, guaranteed.
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There will be a time, don't you worry.
 
ab-user said:
FTFY
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And high usage, it doesn't only happen in black townships as the masses will have you believe, but of course them being the masses it may seem so, they are the same ones who believe there are still white areas.
 
Mystic Twilight said:
Kind of doubt, the type of repairs these machines need probably aren't completed in a day
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Some of the boiler repairs can take weeks, depending on the damage done. This is apparently because these things aren't supposed to die as regularly as they are, but they are breaking very often (relatively speaking).
 
Is there any website that shows precisely which units are down and ones that are up etc.? I mean it would be nice to know if, for example, Koeberg Unit 2 is in fact back online, or will that only be the case later in June?
 
The_Right_Honourable_Brit said:
Is there any website that shows precisely which units are down and ones that are up etc.? I mean it would be nice to know if, for example, Koeberg Unit 2 is in fact back online, or will that only be the case later in June?
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That's internal info. They don't even publish each power station's current status or any current info.
 
The_Right_Honourable_Brit said:
Is there any website that shows precisely which units are down and ones that are up etc.? I mean it would be nice to know if, for example, Koeberg Unit 2 is in fact back online, or will that only be the case later in June?
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And give state enemies the means to plan further attacks and cripple the grid totally?
 
Very suspicious. Under current circumstances we should have a public inspector board, sworn to detail-secrecy of course..
 
Brian_G said:
Very suspicious. Under current circumstances we should have a public inspector board, sworn to detail-secrecy of course..
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The info has never been public why is it suspicious now and not before. By the way, I know some Eskom people and could get the info for you for a not small fee.
 
R13... said:
The info has never been public why is it suspicious now and not before.
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Hell man, under the extreme conditions ongoing there needs to be drastic protection taken and that includes reliable service-security measures.

R13... said:
By the way, I know some Eskom people and could get the info for you for a not small fee.
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:eek:
 
The_Right_Honourable_Brit said:
Is there any website that shows precisely which units are down and ones that are up etc.? I mean it would be nice to know if, for example, Koeberg Unit 2 is in fact back online, or will that only be the case later in June?
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According to this

Station build-up for yesterday - Eskom Data Portal

This shows how resources were used to build-up the demand yesterday, and it includes both generation and demand side resources that Eskom has contracts with.
www.eskom.co.za www.eskom.co.za
we are still down one unit on Koeberg
 
Another day another opportunity for South African government incompetence. Boy, it sure is great to live in good ol SA. An ever growing unemployment rate, potholes everywhere in the roads, water pipes bursting every second day, repairs that take forever to complete, and an electricity grid that is more unstable than Joe Biden's speech patterns. What more could you want?
 
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