poweralert....

[Lupus]

It's also not that much. Each stage in JHB (Under City Power at least) is only 100MW being shed for instance.

Well judging by the amount of suburbs down, it's probably 400MW

 

[wingnut771]

You'd think with half of Pretoria not having any power, stage 5 could be avoided

Apparently the line equals 300MW.

 

[Lupus]

Fair enough, but we are still getting double load shedding that pushes us over 12 hours of load shedding for today. I cannot imagine how bad it is going to get once we see stage 8 or higher. I doubt we will be provided power at all.

Well stage 8 is 12 hours a day, stage 5 is up to 8 hours a day.

 

[Lupus]

Apparently the line equals 300MW.

Ok I was 100MW off

 

[Flamer283]

Apparently the line equals 300MW.

Eish Alright

 

[Jean Claude Vaaldamme]

Well we did not have our 8pm stint last night in Centurion, so maybe they leave some parts on with the extra power they save now. Don't know if we were skipped 4am this morning, was sleeping.

 

[Brian_G]

Well we did not have our 8pm stint last night in Centurion, so maybe they leave some parts on with the extra power they save now. Don't know if we were skipped 4am this morning, was sleeping.

Doesn't work that way - the savings are in real time, so can't be transferred to other periods.
But our switch operator at Jo'burg City Power thinks this way sometimes....

 

[dualmeister]

Spent weekend in McGregor.
Lucky bastards do not get load shedding at all.

 

[DarkSt0rm]

Well judging by the amount of suburbs down, it's probably 400MW

Apparently the line equals 300MW.

Sure, still pales in comparison to 1000MW per stage Maybe they can spare JHB at least hehehe, thank you for your sacrifice Pretoria

 

[Jean Claude Vaaldamme]

Doesn't work that way - the savings are in real time, so can't be transferred to other periods.
But our switch operator at Jo'burg City Power thinks this way sometimes....

Well the big areas is off the whole time from the cables that is down, so maybe they just not switching of the other areas? Not transferring, they shed load with the downed areas?

 

[Lupus]

Sure, still pales in comparison to 1000MW per stage Maybe they can spare JHB at least hehehe, thank you for your sacrifice Pretoria

Well it's 1GW per stage country wide, so each city is supposed to sacrifice 100MW

 

[Brian_G]

Well the big areas is off the whole time from the cables that is down, so maybe they just not switching of the other areas? Not transferring, they shed load with the downed areas?

I'd agree, but in this backwards country I have to doubt they can come up with that thought.

 

[wingnut771]

Sure, still pales in comparison to 1000MW per stage Maybe they can spare JHB at least hehehe, thank you for your sacrifice Pretoria

Eskom must be rejoicing not having to burn as much diesel.

 

[Brian_G]

Eskom anc must be rejoicing not having to burn as much diesel.

FTFY

 

[Vox Populi Vox Dei]

Spent weekend in McGregor.
Lucky bastards do not get load shedding at all.

Why? All areas in the WC besides CoCT have the Eskom LS schedule I thought.

 

[wingnut771]

FTFY

No, the ANC want to burn diesel, easy money for them.

 

[soulie]

Spent weekend in McGregor.
Lucky bastards do not get load shedding at all.

lots of places dont .

 

[Brian_G]

Spent weekend in McGregor.
Lucky bastards do not get load shedding at all.

Strange. According to this they are getting shed (halfway down the page)

Today's Loadshedding Schedule for McGregor, Langeberg, Western Cape

Find out when the power is off due to load-shedding in McGregor, Langeberg, Western Cape - schedules for today, tomorrow and the week ahead.

www.ourpower.co.za

 

[Brian_G]

No, the ANC want to burn diesel, easy money with their contracts.

The ANC lose what Eskom loses, same group of peeps.

 

[wingnut771]

The ANC lose what Eskom loses, same group of peeps.

There are 2 groups. The one group gets the money, the other group bails them out.