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is it because of Squirrel's imminent return?
Really??? We never went beyond stage 6 AFAIK
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Dropping to stage 5 at midnight
wingnut771
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Station build-up for the last 7 days - Eskom Data Portal
This shows how resources were used to build-up the demand over the past 7 days, and it includes both generation and demand side resources that Eskom has contracts with.
www.eskom.co.za
wingnut771
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Looks like stage 7 to me.
SA teetered on the edge of Stage 7 load shedding on Monday | Business
While Eskom has eased load shedding to Stage 5, on Monday evening, nearly 7 000 MW – associated with Stage 7 - were shed from the grid.
www.news24.com
Mike Hoxbig
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So how did they shed 6,700MW when we were on stage 6? Where did the other 700MW come from?
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Probably where they ask big industry to turn off
wingnut771
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Probably all the places that tripped right after they came back on.
R13...
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That's the interruptible load bit.
Straining the "collective tolerance" would be my speculative guess... ie pushing/demanding of the remaining fleet, beyond their rated limits. I'd imagine that the frequency of our grid dropped a bit lower than 50Hz for those couple of hours but can't confirm as I wasn't testing myself.
Disclaimer: Just my amateur opinion & am probably wrong about this (presumably such things would be ruled out). But this is SA, so I suppose anything is possible right? especially when we're teetering on a national blackout, throwing literally everything including the kitchen sink at the problem
A more plausible theory would be that this is all controlled/planned shutdown of the plants, to justify & usher-in the new green/renewable power deals with the US, and that the timing of RamaPoser's recent visit over there was of specific pertinence in that regard
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That figure is at peak time so switching of the same amount of blocks is going to result in more energy being shed.
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Supposed to be shedded from 12:00 to 14:00, but no shedding.
WTF is going on?
WTF is going on?
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Do you live in Pretoriastan? Got the same, still on
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Yep.
Deliberate attempt at sabotaging the grid, or just to appease His Squirrelness that all is OK?
wingnut771
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At least they stopped burning diesel overnight:
www.eskom.co.za
Station build-up for the last 7 days - Eskom Data Portal
This shows how resources were used to build-up the demand over the past 7 days, and it includes both generation and demand side resources that Eskom has contracts with.
www.eskom.co.za
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