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B-1 said:
Hopefully they start teaching these definitions at schools so the future generations know what they are talking about ant aren't as confused as us old ballies.
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Nope, prolly on a need to know basis only.
 
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Paulsie said:
We are on municipal load shedding (Msunduzi - PMB), but have just been told that Eskom has started switching off parts municipality (half at a time) directly, on top of regular load shedding schedule. It has just been implemented.

WTF????
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That municipality has long been ill-run and bankrupt. The chickens coming home to roost? Did they give the reason for the "special" rolling blackouts?

I miss PMB. Was last there five years ago.

Edit: I know they've had electricity infrastructure issues because of a lack of maintenance... Probably related to that.
 
now05ster said:
That municipality has long been ill-run and bankrupt. The chickens coming home to roost? Did they give the reason for the "special" rolling blackouts?

I miss PMB. Was last there five years ago.

Edit: I know they've had electricity infrastructure issues because of a lack of maintenance... Probably related to that.
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Dude... as much as you might miss it, don't come back. This town has gone to ****.
 
Feedback from Evening Peak 21/12/2022 19:33 Total demand: 26 187MW
Loadshedding: 3 371MW
Virtual Power Station: 228MW
Renewable Generation: 1 825MW (Wind 1 530MW, CSP 295MW)
@Eskom_SA
Available Generation Capacity: 25 319MW
@EskomSpokesper1

Seems like some capacity improvement.
 
Grieta Thanburg said:
Feedback from Evening Peak 21/12/2022 19:33 Total demand: 26 187MW
Loadshedding: 3 371MW
Virtual Power Station: 228MW
Renewable Generation: 1 825MW (Wind 1 530MW, CSP 295MW)
@Eskom_SA
Available Generation Capacity: 25 319MW
@EskomSpokesper1

Seems like some capacity improvement.
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Quite a lot, if we had Octgs we could actually have had no load shedding, but apparently load shedding is cheaper then diese
 
Grieta Thanburg said:
Feedback from Evening Peak 21/12/2022 19:33 Total demand: 26 187MW
Loadshedding: 3 371MW
Virtual Power Station: 228MW
Renewable Generation: 1 825MW (Wind 1 530MW, CSP 295MW)
@Eskom_SA
Available Generation Capacity: 25 319MW
@EskomSpokesper1

Seems like some capacity improvement.
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So, that's 27144 in overall capacity plus LS 3500. A healthy margin for them to **** things up some more.
 
now05ster said:
That municipality has long been ill-run and bankrupt. The chickens coming home to roost? Did they give the reason for the "special" rolling blackouts?

I miss PMB. Was last there five years ago.

Edit: I know they've had electricity infrastructure issues because of a lack of maintenance... Probably related to that.
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PMB is sadly disintegrating before one's eyes. BTW they have now officially confirmed the shedding is due to the debt to Eskom to the tune of 543 million.

As per local chber of commerce, apparently the municipality collected some 900million just the other day, but did not pay over a penny of that.

The shedding schedule is 5 hours on, 2.5 hrs off, ongoing.
 
Grieta Thanburg said:
Feedback from Evening Peak 21/12/2022 19:33 Total demand: 26 187MW
Loadshedding: 3 371MW
Virtual Power Station: 228MW
Renewable Generation: 1 825MW (Wind 1 530MW, CSP 295MW)
@Eskom_SA
Available Generation Capacity: 25 319MW
@EskomSpokesper1

Seems like some capacity improvement.
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It means nothing.

8 units in multiple locations can just fall over without warning.
 
Lupus said:
Quite a lot, if we had Octgs we could actually have had no load shedding, but apparently load shedding is cheaper then diese
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I've been saying that for yonks. It's not eskoms job to save the country.

If they didn't burn diesel for baseload and just use pumped storage for peaks and diesel for emergencies, they would be rolling in it and would actually have some money to fix their ****.
 
Paulsie said:
PMB is sadly disintegrating before one's eyes. BTW they have now officially confirmed the shedding is due to the debt to Eskom to the tune of 543 million.

As per local chber of commerce, apparently the municipality collected some 900million just the other day, but did not pay over a penny of that.

The shedding schedule is 5 hours on, 2.5 hrs off, ongoing.
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They should have voted like Howick.
 
Grieta Thanburg said:
Feedback from Evening Peak 21/12/2022 19:33 Total demand: 26 187MW
Loadshedding: 3 371MW
Virtual Power Station: 228MW
Renewable Generation: 1 825MW (Wind 1 530MW, CSP 295MW)
@Eskom_SA
Available Generation Capacity: 25 319MW
@EskomSpokesper1

Seems like some capacity improvement.
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If that stupid accident didn't happen at Kusile in later October, the 3 units would have Eskom's capacity at roughly 27400 MW !
 
The_Right_Honourable_Brit said:
Hopefully the saboteurs have taken their leave...but then that still leaves incompetence.
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I'm still not buying the saboteur excuse. I believe its lack of coal quality control (those damn trucks: bring back rail) and dumb ass controllers on scene and running the system (grid) at max (vol 11) that causes this.
 
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