poweralert....

[Lupus]

I was trying to make light of the situation now that we have some proper load shedding

Oooooh ;-P I still have no solar so have to rely on 9.6kw/h of batteries well 8600 or so as the 10%.

 

[Neuk_]

Oooooh ;-P I still have no solar so have to rely on 9.6kw/h of batteries well 8600 or so as the 10%.

That should be more than enough for Stage 2?

 

[Lupus]

That should be more than enough for Stage 2?

Yeah should be I mean as of this moment in load shedding I'm drawing just under 400w.

 

[Lupus]

Ok son has come home from school, 500w now.

 

[Vox Populi Vox Dei]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1539549397075255302

 

[Off-The-Chart]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1539549397075255302

and then after it comes on, the other unit goes off for it's "life extension"

AI

 

[Lupus]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1539549397075255302

At this point we'd need 3 of those to make up the shortfall, but yeah welcome to SA, they wanted to delay the steam generators so it doesn't run into winter, well now it seems it's going right through.

 

[Lupus]

and then after it comes on, the other unit goes off for it's "life extension"

AI

Only in December, as the generators haven't arrived yet.

 

[The_Librarian]

What's wrong with redneckengineering a couple of electric kettles together to generate enough steam to drive the generator?

Oh wait...

 

[tyerone]

Evening Peak Feedback 22/06/2022 17:52 Total demand: 33 106MW Loadshedding: 2 086MW Virtual Power Station: 86MW Eskom OCGT's Utilised: 13 IPP OCGT's Utilised: 6 Renewable Gen: 535MW (Wind)
@Eskom_SA
Available Generation Capacity: 31 019MW
@EskomSpokesper1

 

[The_Librarian]

Protest Action South Africa

Protests break out at Eskom power stations 23 June 2022 Tensions are rising at Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., with the struggling South African electricity supplier confirming protests at a number of power plants following a breakdown in wage negotiations. Groups at six coalfired stations have...

t.me

Tensions are rising at Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., with the struggling South African electricity supplier confirming protests at a number of power plants following a breakdown in wage negotiations.

Groups at six coalfired stations
have blocked roads leading to some of the power stations, which hampers the movement of people and goods into or outside of the facilities, spokesman Sikonathi Mantshantsha said in a text message on Thursday.

While some incidents of intimidation have been reported, the protesters are largely peaceful at this stage.

The development adds pressure on the state-owned utility, already failing to meet electricity demand and forced to implement controlled blackouts to keep the grid from a total collapse.

Eskom, which generates almost all of the nation's power, reached a deadlock with labour unions in pay talks earlier this week.
The company's last major wage negotiations in 2018 broke down into labour protests considered illegal because the utility provides an essential service â that resulted in electricity shortages.

A three-year deal was then signed for pay increases of as much as 7.5% annually.

Some of Thursday's demonstrators wore union gear, Mantshantsha said.

The police have been alerted.

The National Union of Mineworkers and National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa are the two biggest labour groups at Eskom.

 

[Düber]

LOL- There is someone in our area that must be using one of the automated Eskom channels to report a fault every time we have loadshedding.

Shortly after the session starts I get an SMS saying that a ticket has been opened and that they sadly don't know when power will be restored.

 

[Gtx Gaming]

To conserve emergency generation reserves, loadshedding will be implemented to Stage 4 from
11:00 am until midnight tonight.

 

[Lupus]

To conserve emergency generation reserves, loadshedding will be implemented to Stage 4 from
11:00 am until midnight tonight.

Yup and stage 4 through out the weekend, seems unions win again... This country seriously needs to start showing protestors the old days, want to protest, 5.56mm rounds will show you.

 

[wingnut771]

****, I predicted stage 4 for monday, I see it's early.

 

[Azure 12]

Yup and stage 4 through out the weekend, seems unions win again... This country seriously needs to start showing protestors the old days, want to protest, 5.56mm rounds will show you.

Lead-shedding and load-shedding are inversely proportional

 

[Lupus]

Lead-shedding and load-shedding are inversely proportional

I sometimes think we need more lead shedding. If you're looting ,protesting or doing any civil disobediance. If you're doing it at a national key point like a power plant, perhaps some bigger lead.

 

[The_Librarian]

I sometimes think we need more lead shedding. If you're looting ,protesting or doing any civil disobediance. If you're doing it at a national key point like a power plant, perhaps some bigger lead.

Yeah, but the current guavamint's only interested in winning votes and looting.

 

[The_Librarian]

Genny's refilled. Hope 'shedding does not go over to a higher level.

 

[Gtx Gaming]

Things look tight tonight with eskom barely making 26000MW