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Lupus said:
Industry uses the most load overall, but peaks kick in when people get home and start cooking, same as the first peak is when people get up to make coffee. Oddly enough these peaks did also drop during lockdowns. After 9pm it drops all the way back down to just the normal load + industry.
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Probably due to less by-the-clock structure at the time.
 
Lupus said:
And with the LS you've not seen your electrical bill go down?
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I use 4–5 units a day, have gas geysers and cook on gas. My base load is 1 fridge, laptop + screen and some LED ceiling lights.

With no solar at the moment, I expect my bill to go up since I'm recharging from the grid and batteries aren't 100% efficient, plus the inverter in between also takes its bit now.
 
pinball wizard said:
Anyone using a tumble dryer in sa should be strung up by the balls. It is a completely unnecessary appliance in this country.
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How much difference can it make, sooner or later Eskom (anc) wouldn't manage if we turned off everything either.
 
Grieta Thanburg said:
I use 4–5 units a day, have gas geysers and cook on gas. My base load is 1 fridge, laptop + screen and some LED ceiling lights.

With no solar at the moment, I expect my bill to go up since I'm recharging from the grid and batteries aren't 100% efficient, plus the inverter in between also takes its bit now.
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You hobos amaze me.
 
Lupus said:
I'm going to say probably from 4pm through to about 8pm
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I wouldn't be surprised if the new schedules stagger time slots, so blocks come back at different times but still go off at the same time. EG go off at 0800 and then the first block comes back 1000, next 1100, next 1200, next goes off 1300, next restored 1400 etc
 
vaakseun said:
Shortfall is 8205 MW. Without LC it would be stage 9 load shedding.
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This is how it's worked out
Demand=33 841-6376-447 (ILS)=27018
Supply=25 636+OCTGs (148x14)+250 from the others + 1019 from IPP=28977
There with just load shedding + OCGTS demand was met
Not a great buffer but still sort of one if you throw in the wind.
 
dualmeister said:
Next excuse.

The Fibre.

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If there were ever a grid collapse in SA, i always figured it would be caused by some sort of commuication fault that would leave Eskom unable to adequately remotely control and monitor it's network. You'd think these sites should at least be served by multiple fiber lines with diverse paths and also having microwave/LTE backup.
 
Brian_G said:
Probably due to less by-the-clock structure at the time.
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Yup pretty much this, as people didn't have strict cooking times so they cooked and did what they wanted when they wanted.
 
pinball wizard said:
Anyone using a tumble dryer in sa should be strung up by the balls. It is a completely unnecessary appliance in this country.
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SA is 1.22m2 km. Please don't assume that your experience is universal. Areas with heavy, constant rainfall and/or cloud cover might require one. Hospitals, Hotels, BnBs, etc might also need.

Also, how about direct you anger at the lack of supply. When we start fighting one another, the powers-that-be win, as they're exempt from our voices.
 
Lupus said:
Actually people don't add that much during lockdowns we were sitting at 2GW less during hard lockdown it was 5GW less. Precisely if they don't want to shutdown industries and keep passing on higher stages, the only other way to stabilise the grid is to lockdown.
Industries need to start taking this pressure and if not they need to start actually pushing back to Eskom, the biggest problem in SA is that industries are compliant, they sit there and go we spend 650million on diesel, but they don't withold taxes or force government in anyway.
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That is because running cost goes against the tax section.

Profit is less so pay less tax, if they don't pass that cost on to the consumer.
End of the day it all comes down to the consumers/voters... that are dumb enough to keep on voting em into power.
 
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