wingnut771
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Oh ok, I never check that chart as I feel it's all guess work.
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It's one of the only ways to sort of gauge the power grid now, not in 24 hours time
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Right, so I'm expecting at least another 3000MW of coal to have been added in tomorrows chart if no diesel was used today.
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Yeah same, or they used pumped. But they did say that they were bringing up some generators
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My area also increased quite a bit. Went from about 10% to about 40% between November and now.
I'm sure the municipality is feeling it.
wingnut771
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Lets say each house has 7.5kW.
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Lots of stage for next few days, they only announced it for up to Wednesday. Thursday is SONA so the grid will magically work then.
sand_man
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Stage 3 from 5am tomorrow morning. I suspect stage 3/4 and maybe 5 if we lucky, for the duration of the week.
Vox Populi Vox Dei
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Stage 4: 4pm-5am while while rest for Stage 3 for Mon and Tues while reduced to Stages 3 & 2 for Wednesday (day before SONA)
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Might be SONA on Thursday although unlikely, I agree. Most likely to be a Sat or Sunday...
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Hmm smells fishy
They didn't add the 20 gas turbines getting us to 27...
Their plan is probably make things look fine this week then Cyril can brag how everything is under control and then boom Friday
"we have implemented stage 5 loadshedding"
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Found this really interesting - while it won't cover peak demand, I wonder what impact it's having or going to have.
Notice driving around so many businesses and homes that now have solar - gotta say, I think it's amazing to see - through this adversity, we're moving to a decentralized grid.
I wonder if this is part of the plan to break Eskom up and through the Distribution / Transmission businesses, that they'll open a market place of 'wheeling' and kind of act as Amazon.
Solar infrastructure imports spike, showing up the Reippp
In the past five years, the private sector has imported renewable infrastructure capable of generating the equivalent of almost 2.5 Koeberg nuclear plants.
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Found this really interesting - while it won't cover peak demand, I wonder what impact it's having or going to have.
Notice driving around so many businesses and homes that now have solar - gotta say, I think it's amazing to see - through this adversity, we're moving to a decentralized grid.
I wonder if this is part of the plan to break Eskom up and through the Distribution / Transmission businesses, that they'll open a market place of 'wheeling' and kind of act as Amazon.
Solar infrastructure imports spike, showing up the Reippp
In the past five years, the private sector has imported renewable infrastructure capable of generating the equivalent of almost 2.5 Koeberg nuclear plants.
The part I've highlighted could help solve the problem within the next two years alone. But the ANC/ANC government knows if they take off the brakes and actually go for the most effective solution to load shedding, they're effectively putting Eskom in a coffin themselves.
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Found this really interesting - while it won't cover peak demand, I wonder what impact it's having or going to have.
Notice driving around so many businesses and homes that now have solar - gotta say, I think it's amazing to see - through this adversity, we're moving to a decentralized grid.
I wonder if this is part of the plan to break Eskom up and through the Distribution / Transmission businesses, that they'll open a market place of 'wheeling' and kind of act as Amazon.
Solar infrastructure imports spike, showing up the Reippp
In the past five years, the private sector has imported renewable infrastructure capable of generating the equivalent of almost 2.5 Koeberg nuclear plants.
I think its happening in spite of the government and municipalities. Municipalities derive something like 30% of their revenue from electricity sales and government being communist in nature wants centralised control of the electricity distribution.
If these two were on board they would have made it easy to back feed electricity into the grid. Many of us have solar systems that sit idle after 9am because our batteries are charged and most of us would be happy to dump that extra power into the grid but its such a pain that we rather don't.
The days of government looking out for the peoples interest are long gone and people are going back to being self sufficient. We will see this more and more as they try and cling to the old models.
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