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[Brian_G]

I actaully hope he/she/it is right for once.

Get it over with and get to start picking up the pieces?

Personally I think a grid collapse won't happen, industry must be pulling some strings still.

 

[wingnut771]

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

 

[R13...]

Get it over with and get to start picking up the pieces?

Personally I think a grid collapse won't happen, industry must be pulling some strings still.

What strings are they pulling? You make it sound like someone intends on collapsing the grid but industry are preventing it?

 

[wingnut771]

What strings are they pulling? You make it sound like someone intends on collapsing the grid but industry are preventing it?

Yeah, you don't pull strings then electricity magically appears. Electricity doesn't work like that, unless it's lightning, that stuff is magic.

 

[R13...]

Yeah, you don't pull strings then electricity magically appears. Electricity doesn't work like that, unless it's lightning, that stuff is magic.

@Brian_G probably does believe it comes from magic, he is a most credulous fellow.

 

[dabbler]

Yeah, you don't pull strings then electricity magically appears. Electricity doesn't work like that, unless it's lightning, that stuff is magic.

We need a huge capacitor that is charged up by lightning? Will beat any green technology out there. We just need lots of lightning.

 

[Mzezman]

We need a huge capacitor that is charged up by lightning? Will beat any green technology out there. We just need lots of lightning.

Limpopo says hello...

 

[wingnut771]

We need a huge capacitor that is charged up by lightning? Will beat any green technology out there. We just need lots of lightning.

Lightning is witchcraft so we can just get the Sangoma to conjure it to strike wherever. Seriously though, they say one lightning bolt can power a city for a minute but:

 

[Brian_G]

@R13... , your maturity is shining through again..

 

[Brian_G]

Personally I think a grid collapse won't happen, industry must be pulling some strings still.

There are "save the planet" efforts to interfere with power supply efforts everywhere.
There are idiots at the helm here.
There are political games afoot here all the time.
But some industry leaders are hopefully having a strong enough influence.

Now was that so hard?

 

[tyerone]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1572680524447252480

 

[R13...]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1572680524447252480

Eish, no improvement likely lost as much as they recovered ending up with a zero sum gain.

 

[Jam Sandwich]

So it's not looking positive for a stage drop today then?

 

[Cactus]

So it's not looking positive for a stage drop today then?

It would have been funny if it wasn't so depressing.

 

[Lupus]

So power was supposed to be restored at 4:30, it's now almost 7, going into 3 hours over restoration, so glad I'm generating enough power to work at least.

 

[tyerone]

So it's not looking positive for a stage drop today then?

i cant see it happening

 

[Segg]

Total demand still seems really high for spring time though

 

[porchrat]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1572680524447252480

What the heck is a Virtual Power Station?

Eskom so desperate they're counting imaginary MWs now?

 

[Lupus]

Total demand still seems really high for spring time though

Demand shifts during load shedding, it seems the higher the load the more the shift.
Think about it, you're going to go off at say 8pm, so you start doing everything you'd do from 8, earlier cooking washing and such. Than on top of that you've got the guys who have just come off shedding at 6 now playing catchup, some of them since four hours earlier instead of 2.
This is why it's so high as they've just shifted demand, all the geysers coming back on after 2 or 4 hours, people cooking, cleaning whatever.

 

[Lupus]

What the heck is a Virtual Power Station?

Eskom so desperate they're counting imaginary MWs now?

Check is pinned tweet, it explains it.