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KatieKim said:
There is a change to times coming tomorrow. So we having back to back doubles through the night. 2 hrs max of power the whole night.


You can easily have 2 x 4 hr loadshedding slots in a day.

This is going by City Power setup but I'm sure it applies to other municipalities. There are 3 main loadshedding slots for the schedule per day. For every loadshedding slot, your municipality has worked out which stage you will be loadshedded at for that time frame. E.G 12:00-14:00 they have slotted your block in at stage 4. If Eskom is loadshedding up to stage 3 you'll miss it, if it is stage 4 you will be loadshedded. When you start going to stage 5 and above that is when the doubles come in. For City Power this is how it works:

Stage 1 = stage 5
Stage 2 = stage 6
Stage 3 = stage 7
Stage 4 = stage 8

You can very well have a separate stage 1 and stage 2 slots per day. And worse they can run back to back so your break between loadshedding reduces from 6 hrs to 4hrs. If there is a time change, the times move earlier so you can just have 2hrs between loadshedding. Each time slot basically last for 4 days, the doubles extend it. When the day comes and Eskom moves to stage 7. You can very well a mix of stage 1, 2 and 3 loadshedding for your day, this is stage 8 loadshedding.

You need to learn your schedules properly. Predicting on your backup generation you need to know what you can and can't do for the day or coming days. It also best to take a pessimistic view and plan according to current worse case scenario.

This is city powers current schedule:
It isn't easy to read but it gives an idea.
Eskomsepush is easier and if it is showing more than 3 slots, that is how it is showing the double for the day.
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Can't plan **** if the power never comes back on after a 4 hour stint, and that happens every time in some areas.

Suffice to say, Jhb is on more than just stage 6 due to incompetence and breakdowns.
 
So, when are these new schedule designs supposed to surface, and where are they aimed at or is it for the whole country?
 
VooDooC said:
Can't plan **** if the power never comes back on after a 4 hour stint, and that happens every time in some areas.

Suffice to say, Jhb is on more than just stage 6 due to incompetence and breakdowns.
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But hey Durban gets exempt for almost a year and we don't
 
also what is up with all these Cape Townians shocked by stage 6?? Oh wait cause of Steenbas they never had the true taste.
 
Brian_G said:
So only stage 6c or worse applies to them?


Yeah, that's likely it.
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Who knows, but they are all like how can this be stage 6?? It's like it is, we've had almost 60 days of it this year.
 
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