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Chuffed because we used less diesel this weekend. This moanday the genny is above 65%.

Last moanday it was on 20%.

Hoping they will be able to fix the broken equipment, but I'm not going to hold my breath, as a domino effect may happen.
 
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Lupus said:
Demand went down a bit when the load shedding stage was down, wonder if there is a correlation.
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Yeah, I'm seeing this more and more clearly. Residential demand (in kWh) is largely constant - geysers still need to be heated, food cooked etc. Loadshedding simply shifts when people can do it, but doesn't decrease total consumption over a day. Lower stages means that consumption can be spread out more across the day, which means less instantaneous demand
 
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Speedster said:
Yeah, I'm seeing this more and more clearly. Residential demand (in kWh) is largely constant - geysers still need to be heated, food cooked etc. Loadshedding simply shifts when people can do it, but doesn't decrease total consumption over a day. Lower stages means that consumption can be spread out more across the day, which means less instantaneous demand
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Yup that's my thinking, as the higher the stages the higher the demand was at 6pm, now it seems it's dropping a bit, tonight will show if this is true, as Tuesday are normally a little more demanding for some reason.
 
Speedster said:
Yeah, I'm seeing this more and more clearly. Residential demand (in kWh) is largely constant - geysers still need to be heated, food cooked etc. Loadshedding simply shifts when people can do it, but doesn't decrease total consumption over a day. Lower stages means that consumption can be spread out more across the day, which means less instantaneous demand
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Well for one we use as normal, batteries just recharge when mains returns... ie: demand shifted :D
 
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