South Africans are not getting the full story behind load shedding

[grok]

In order to understand Eskom you have to understand the people running it.

What does Soweto do when they're threatened over non-payment? They strike, block roads and burn a school or two. The exact kinda negotiation tactic we see from Eskom.

Pay us 25% or we make electricity supply ungovernable. Oh you won't give in to our demands? Have some loadshedding until you do.

It's a basic form of mass protest/negotiation, ingrained in the psyche from minister to miner.

The Nersa approval has been paused hasn't it? That's why you're sitting in the dark again. No other reason.

 

[supersunbird]

Our power's been off since 6 here in Bloem. I don't mind eating late but I'd kill for a cup of coffee.

You buy a Bush Baby gas stove like below at Checkers (think its like R200) and its R29 canisters and then you can have coffee (remember you have to buy some kind of suitable camping or whatever kettle too, Bought mine at Midas, whistles when it starts boiling). Boils the water super quick compared to the small blue camping stove we used before

 

[Sonic2k]

I think his point is "equipment failure" doesn't take exactly 2 hours starting exactly on the hour.

Inclined to agree with Koosi on this...you can see it in the mybb posts that there is at least some out of cycle LS happening. Generally gets shot down as not being loadshedding by someone posting a like to City Power's not LS site.

Thanks for backing me up. Power system faults do not happen at exact times, i.e time so accurate you can set a clock with them. I am sorry it doesn't work like that. Maybe one time is a coincidence but every week, same story... no coincidence.

 

[bwana]

I think his point is "equipment failure" doesn't take exactly 2 hours starting exactly on the hour.

Inclined to agree with Koosi on this...you can see it in the mybb posts that there is at least some out of cycle LS happening. Generally gets shot down as not being loadshedding by someone posting a like to City Power's not LS site.

You skipped over the possibility of maintenance - you realise I'm sure that switching substations on and off all the time takes it's toll on equipment.

 

[maumau]

You skipped over the possibility of maintenance - you realise I'm sure that switching substations on and off all the time takes it's toll on equipment.

Some parts of Fairland went off at 8:00 am on the dot yesterday morning but it wasn't load shedding - City Power website said it was due to overloading, yeah right, at 8:00am!

BUT..... loadshedding kicked in at 6:30pm and the power was off until 10:30ish, so 14 hours.

What happened is the power went off at 8:00am, some places came on at 8:10am but some didn't. Then it was off all day, I'm sure something exploded when they tried to switch on.

 

[MrGray]

I just don't see what the point would be of some kind of sinister secret load shedding agenda when they regularly publicly announce and implement load shedding virtually daily anyway.

In the years before the first load shedding kicked in (2008) our area had many outages due to either planned or unplanned maintenance to keep the aging distribution infrastructure going so you have to concede that at least some of the non-LS cuts must be due to City Power's normal level of maintenance and faults. It's not as if outages ceased to exist when load shedding started and as someone pointed out, load shedding is likely to increase the strain on the system and increase the level of maintenance required.