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Grieta Thanburg said:
Constant Stage 6 for the next 3 months will make for an interesting 2024. I wonder if people will 'forget' if things slightly improve next year, like the chimney getting fixed and so on.
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Lets just be thankful its not stage 7 yet...
 
wingnut771 said:
Yeah it’s 10-20% whatever that is.
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Here is a fairly recent article that sheds a little bit of light (pardon the pun) on load curtailment:

www.google.com

How Eskom is dodging stage 7 load shedding – for now

Load curtailment is preventing South Africa from reaching stage 7 or 8 load shedding.
www.google.com www.google.com

  • Stage 1 and stage 2: companies are required to reduce 10% of their power consumption
  • Stage 3: companies are required to reduce 15% of their power consumption
  • Stage 4: companies are required to reduce 20% of their power consumption
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At a very rough guesstimate, I'd say level 4 load curtailment might work out to about 500 MW or so.
 
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vaakseun said:
At a very rough guesstimate, I'd say level 4 load curtailment might work out to about 2500 MW or so.
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The number is right there, if it was 2500MW it wouldn't be stage 6,as the 6550 would be actually 4000 removed.
 
Grieta Thanburg said:
Constant Stage 6 for the next 3 months will make for an interesting 2024. I wonder if people will 'forget' if things slightly improve next year, like the chimney getting fixed and so on.
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Yeah I do wonder the damage it’s doing to the ANC.
 

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 www.eskom.co.za
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System hourly demand and available capacity - Eskom Data Portal

Hourly demand is compared against available capacity, to indicate the amount of surplus/shortfall there was. Available capacity must be matched with the total RSA contracted demand.
www.eskom.co.za www.eskom.co.za
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Priapus said:
More interesting no updates on when Stage 6 ends…
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It won't. There is no way they can drop with the demand we are seeing. Stage 6 is here to stay.
Grieta Thanburg said:
Constant Stage 6 for the next 3 months will make for an interesting 2024. I wonder if people will 'forget' if things slightly improve next year, like the chimney getting fixed and so on.
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I think with the number of job losses that will happen over the next short term, I highly doubt it. Will be a miracle if we don't have riots mid winter. My company won't survive, revenue lost is insane YTD.
 
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