Rolling Blackouts: Friday 8 May 2015 [Stage 1 from 10am]

[ghostR]

Ahh, This load shedding thing is getting a tad bit annoying now.

 

[ProfA]

Apparently all of it switched off.

kidding?

 

[Alton Turner Blackwood]

kidding?

I tend to believe him. Check his location

 

[Aquila ka Hecate]

Called the call center to report fault and was told by the agent that all of Soweto off. Then called people in other areas and they all experiencing outages.

North Riding/Jukskei Park/Maroeladal also went off just around 1pm.

 

[KOPITE]

Seems like most of soweto is in the dark at the moment!

Literally or figurally

 

[AthenianOwl]

Inb4Stage2

 

[Venomous]

Time to move close to a hospital.

I live near one.
We get smacked with 4h30min slots on stage 2,
The only constant is that the schedule is never changed.
The hospital's generator is noisy at night, when there is less traffic or other noises.

We have only once been smacked by stage 1, other times stage 1 implemented on our "off the schedule days" so we keep our lights on

 

[Venomous]

I demand Stage 3 from 4pm.

hell no.

stage 3 hits us with a 4:30 session and a 6 hr session everyday for 5 days then 1 day only one 4:30 sesssion, then 5 days at a double hit.... of more than 10hrs PER day!

 

[Priapus]

Agh.. now that I have moved north I'm going to be in the dark much more than when I was in the south...

 

[Luke7777]

Getting ready to be shedded for the 4th eve in a row, the moment they move to stage 2...

 

[Lino]

Yay... 6pm to 8pm for me.. woohoo.

Celebrate good times come on

 

[stefan9]

I demand Stage 3 from 4pm.

I prefer it to stay at stage 1/2. No evening loadshedding then for me. One loadshedding a day is enough...

 

[W.Salie]

UPDATE:

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Earlier:

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EDIT: Power Alert graph

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Where do you get the graph? Which website

 

[bwana]

Where do you get the graph? Which website

http://www.poweralert.co.za

MickeyD then adds the lines…

 

[MickeyD]

Where do you get the graph? Which website

http://www.poweralert.co.za/poweralert5/index.php?location=online

and I add the lines...

 

[Dan C]

Getting ready to be shedded for the 4th eve in a row, the moment they move to stage 2...

Stage 1 and Stage 2 the same for me tonight.. bloody 8-10pm. Now if it was Stage 3, it will be better

 

[ToxicBunny]

Yay... 25minutes and its lights the fek out....

 

[HavocXphere]

http://www.poweralert.co.za/poweralert5/index.php?location=online

and I add the lines...

Based on what if I may ask? The graph isn't scaled afaik so any kind of line would be reasonably arbitrary, no?

 

[Gordon_R]

The graph on poweralert.co.za doesn't show scale lines, but it the source must surely scaled. Otherwise how would Eskom draw it!?

An approximate scale (GW) can be inferred from the Eskom capacity shortage graphs (shown elsewhere), as well as the regular daily peak consumption cycle and known pumped storage capacity, and the previous history and progression from stage 1 to stage 2 load shedding.

Drawing lines on the chart is not an exact process, but then neither is Eskom's daily outlook...

 

[stepper]

8 hours later... power is still off in Soweto!