poweralert....

[B-1]

14 OCGT's I see burning diesel is back in fashion.

 

[wingnut771]

De Ruyter claimed some "beefy units" will return this week. Let's see...

also added the nugget "if nothing else goes wrong", so far it looks like its going wrong.

 

[Lupus]

14 OCGT's I see burning diesel is back in fashion.

Well it was that or stage 5

 

[B-1]

Well it was that or stage 5

Yes, but recovering all this money they are spending isn't going to be fun.

 

[Neuk_]

Parkhurst sub station went boom just before 15:00 meaning Parkhurst, Craighall Park, Greenside and Parktown are all out.

Back on just after midnight.

 

[Lupus]

Yes, but recovering all this money they are spending isn't going to be fun.

Still cheaper than a higher stage of load shedding.

 

[Lupus]

Back on just after midnight.

How did the solar hold up?

 

[Neuk_]

How did the solar hold up?

We were perfectly fine, batteries were only at 90% SOC due to the late afternoon cloudy conditions, this morning they were at a lowest of 36% which isn't the lowest they have ever been.

 

[Lupus]

We were perfectly fine, batteries were only at 90% SOC due to the late afternoon cloudy conditions, this morning they were at a lowest of 36% which isn't the lowest they have ever been.

That's not bad, neighbours must've been fuming.

 

[wingnut771]

Still cheaper than a higher stage of load shedding.

Not for Eskom. Soon they will have no money and the country goes down anyway.

 

[Lupus]

Not for Eskom. Soon they will have no money and the country goes down anyway.

Viva ANC

 

[B-1]

Still cheaper than a higher stage of load shedding.

Not for Eskom. Soon they will have no money and the country goes down anyway.

I'm not so sure, like wingnut says if they spend all the maintenance money on diesel and don't maintain things it sets up a bigger risk in the future.

 

[Neuk_]

That's not bad, neighbours must've been fuming.

I have been running the house off the ESS for a while now so used to the battery getting in to the 30% SOC range but when there is no CityPower supply I still suffer from a bit of battery anxiety More and more of our neighbours are getting inverters/batteries/solar, some have generators which we can hear but a lot don't have anything at all.

 

[wingnut771]

Why does the 30th look different? Where everything is made up and the points don't matter.

 

[Lupus]

I have been running the house off the ESS for a while now so used to the battery getting in to the 30% SOC range but when there is no CityPower supply I still suffer from a bit of battery anxiety More and more of our neighbours are getting inverters/batteries/solar, some have generators which we can hear but a lot don't have anything at all.

Yup I get battery anxiety as well, like last night just as load shedding kicked in I was like no you can't boil the kettle, you've had the entire time.
Yeah I am seeing more lights on during load shedding now, soon I'm not going to know when there is shedding or not.

 

[Lupus]

Why does the 30th look different? Where everything is made up and the points don't matter.
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Corrective data?

 

[wingnut771]

Corrective data?

How do they make the graph without the data? Data to them should be live shouldn't it, how else would they "manage" the grid? How does gridwatchUK manage to update theirs every 10 minutes where Eskom takes sometimes 48 hours to update theirs?

 

[Lupus]

How do they make the graph without the data? Data to them should be live shouldn't it, how else would they "manage" the grid? How does gridwatchUK manage to update theirs every 10 minutes where Eskom takes sometimes 48 hours to update theirs?
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The UK vs SA, efficiency vs uhmmmm

 

[wingnut771]

The UK vs SA, efficiency vs uhmmmm eish

ftfy.

 

[zeb]

ftfy.

You mean

The UK vs SA, efficiency vs uhmmmm eish apartheids fault