poweralert....

[The_Librarian]

Gentlemen, place your bets on wet coal.

 

[wingnut771]

Gentlemen, place your bets on wet coal.

It's been a while , I don't even think they themselves believe that one anymore.

 

[Lupus]

It's been a while , I don't even think they themselves believe that one anymore.

Yeah 9 months is awhile ;-)

Eskom blames rain, wet coal for generation capacity failures

Eskom leaders are giving an update on the state of the national power grid after ratcheting up the power cuts to stage four on Tuesday morning.

ewn.co.za

 

[Brian_G]

It's been a while , I don't even think they themselves believe that one anymore.

You've forgotten the mist

 

[vaakseun]

You've forgotten the mist

Don't forget jellyfish, they've only used that excuse once so far.

Jellyfish are to blame for stage 4 load-shedding.

 

[Gtx Gaming]

Stats are showing 5400mw short, guess diesel can keep us stage 4. With All OCGT running we would be 2000MW short and then 2000mw buffer which would give us stage 4.

But I doubt eskom going has the luxury of running them all tonight.

Eskom is only generating 22000MW atm.

 

[CrypticZA]

News just in "dog peed on power cable which led to 2 units dropping"

Waiting for headlines like this to start appearing

 

[Brian_G]

Coming to a power station near you soon....

UFO spotted over UK nuclear plant

Newly released UK government files of reported sightings of UFOs - Unidentified Flying Objects - include a 1993 sighting of something strange hovering over the Hartlepool nuclear power station. The object was seen in the skies over the Teeside and Cleveland area of northeast England on several...

www.world-nuclear-news.org

 

[Slowestclock]

Safe to say stage 6 by Wednesday?

 

[Gtx Gaming]

Safe to say stage 6 by Wednesday?

Might be before that, eskom is in tough spot unless some power stations randomly started working.

 

[Brian_G]

These endless predictions of doom are pointless. You can't trust the info from them, and it's limited. And if the anc are scared enough they'll cough up the needed bucks.

 

[Vox Populi Vox Dei]

These endless predictions of doom are pointless. You can't trust the info from them, and it's limited. And if the anc are scared enough they'll cough up the needed bucks.

About to say that. The Eskom system is unpredictable - but that can also be a in a good way (plants randomly coming back online). We had some doom merchants predicting Stage 8 two weeks ago.

 

[Brian_G]

It's all a mad joke right now. For instance, just got turned off for 14 minutes, no reason known. Idiots at work.

 

[AlphaJohn]

These endless predictions of doom are pointless. You can't trust the info from them, and it's limited. And if the anc are scared enough they'll cough up the needed bucks.

Problem is its "our" money. ANC doesn't have any money, they cant even pay their staff.

 

[Slowestclock]

Money printer will turn on as usual

 

[Segg]

How Eskom decides on the load shedding stages.....

 

[Brian_G]

Problem is its it was "our" money. ANC doesn't have any money, they cant even pay their staff.

FTFY

 

[wingnut771]

Thank goodness it was windy or else we would have had stage 4 on sunday.

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

 

[Brian_G]

Eskom weighs nuclear fuel impact after US South Africa pact ends

: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...r-fuel-impact-after-us-south-africa-pact-ends

“Eskom is exploring the implications of the withdrawal of the US NRC approval for Westinghouse, and what is needed to enable them to continue supplying fuel,” the utility said in a reply to questions. Eskom doesn’t anticipate that it will “have to establish new fuel contracts due to this current issue” and no nuclear fuel shortage is expected at Koeberg in the immediate future, it said.

 

[Lupus]

Thank goodness it was windy or else we would have had stage 4 on sunday.
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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

Stages of load shedding are not based on an unreliable source of energy