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We got skipped this morning and this afternoon. That’s nice and all, but still can’t work in case it goes off etc etc
That is why you have to follow a schedule in order for it to have any usefulness.
 
DarkSt0rm said:
It won't. There is no way they can drop with the demand we are seeing. Stage 6 is here to stay.
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We’ll have to see I guess. My take is they drop it over the weekend and then slowly ramp it backup, midweek, next week.
 
Priapus said:
We’ll have to see I guess. My take is they drop it over the weekend and then slowly ramp it backup, midweek, next week.
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Will depend on how much they can catch up, as they've done before. Winter is coming though, so who knows how long it could improve for. IMO it's a matter of if they'll deal with the sabotage properly or not, not about their tech abilities.
 
Okay so back to my previous comment about LC.

Stage 4 is the highest level of load-curtailment at the power utility’s disposal, based on previous feedback to questions about the demand reduction mechanism
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So yeah if demand goes up anymore past 33GW - due to load shift or whatever. And we don’t increase generation - stage 7 is inevitable.
 
Lupus said:
The number is right there, if it was 2500MW it wouldn't be stage 6,as the 6550 would be actually 4000 removed.
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Based on Monday's evening's peak shortfall, what would the exact amount of MW's shed via load curtailment be?
 
vaakseun said:
Based on Monday's evening's peak shortfall, what would the exact amount of MW's shed via load curtailment be?
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I've already given the calculations above, also load curtailment is in the total figure of 6550.
 
With the uptake in solar and some places staring up to 250000 installs a month, will that not drastically reduce demand
 
Pak Fa Fui said:
With the uptake in solar and some places staring up to 250000 installs a month, will that not drastically reduce demand
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Not enough to make a decent impact. Also the sun isn’t always out and then there is evening demand.
 
The_Librarian said:
Sooner or later the money for diesel will run out.

Then the real fun and games will start.

Especially if there's no diesel for farmers and delivery vehicles.
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They can't use more than R2.5 billion a month worth of diesel for logistical reasons. So according to our new electricity minister, Eskom has somehow got R30bn. for diesel so they will be using OCGTs every month this year.
 
Pak Fa Fui said:
With the uptake in solar and some places staring up to 250000 installs a month, will that not drastically reduce demand
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No, households only use around 7%(?) of all generated power, every home can be 100% off grid and there will still be loadshedding
 
Temujin said:
No, households only use around 7%(?) of all generated power, every home can be 100% off grid and there will still be loadshedding
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If all households use less than an average of 2500MW then why not use load curtailment as a start of lowering demand
 
Pak Fa Fui said:
If all households use less than an average of 2500MW then why not use load curtailment as a start of lowering demand
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Because that would be disastrous on the economy. Their top 30 or so energy consumers contribute somewhere in the region of 20% of the country's GDP.

If that were to be impacted, the knock-on effects would hit us a lot harder than sitting in the dark for a few hours...
 
Mike Hoxbig said:
Because that would be disastrous on the economy. Their top 30 or so energy consumers contribute somewhere in the region of 20% of the country's GDP.

If that were to be impacted, the knock-on effects would hit us a lot harder than sitting in the dark for a few hours...
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Isn't the SMME economy that's basically dead a bigger GDP contributor in any event? Pretty sure that's what I'm forever reading in the news
 
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