Stage 1 loadshedding from 9am Monday

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Craig said:
Most roads are not that large, I'd agree that the larger intersections do critically need a pig standing there, the small one shouldn't need a traffic cop, shouldn't, but as I said you get people that just speeds through. So it's not really a workable solution. Best solution would be to not have the traffic lights go out when load shedding hits.
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SOLAR power on the important traffic light intersections ( so they never go off )
( Waits timidly and anxiously for quick replies for why this will NEVER work ... )
 
Does anyone know if anything can be done about a municipality that is loadshedding their resident unfairly? While the rest of the country is on stage 2, Port Elizabeth is on stage 4 most of the times and some days we are on stage 6/7. On Wednesday my group will be off for 12 hours.
 
Bees ZA said:
Does anyone know if anything can be done about a municipality that is loadshedding their resident unfairly? While the rest of the country is on stage 2, Port Elizabeth is on stage 4 most of the times and some days we are on stage 6/7. On Wednesday my group will be off for 12 hours.
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Vote for a different party in the next municipal elections, or move.
 
Bees ZA said:
Does anyone know if anything can be done about a municipality that is loadshedding their resident unfairly? While the rest of the country is on stage 2, Port Elizabeth is on stage 4 most of the times and some days we are on stage 6/7. On Wednesday my group will be off for 12 hours.
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Think best bet is when residents moan on social media ask them to bug their ward counselor , if enough counselors get bugged they could put presure on guys who do schedules.
 
Bottom line: they have phugged up the whole system and now even the bubby shop generator has run out of petrol. Africa.
 
Bees ZA said:
Does anyone know if anything can be done about a municipality that is loadshedding their resident unfairly? While the rest of the country is on stage 2, Port Elizabeth is on stage 4 most of the times and some days we are on stage 6/7. On Wednesday my group will be off for 12 hours.
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Unfortunately we're taking the brunt of industry not being load shedded here in PE. Keep nagging your ward councillor. I have been.
 
Sinbad said:
Assuming Kelvin doesn't go boom
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Kelvin went boom


Load Shedding Alert
Mon 3 Feb

Message fm City Power: Due to the loss of Kelvin Power generation, we now need to do load shedding.
 
Sinbad said:
Kelvin went boom


Load Shedding Alert
Mon 3 Feb

Message fm City Power: Due to the loss of Kelvin Power generation, we now need to do load shedding.
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nothing o their twitter yet, but holy shh... look at all teh outages on their feed, no wonder they don't need to loadshed :p
 
Still no offical word from City Power?
 
As posted on our ward group this morning.

The second part is from Mashaba's state of the city address. Not sure where the first part is from.

*Why CoJ power is on during Stage 2 loadshedding?*

I’ve been getting a lot of questions from residents has to how City Power are managing to keep the lights on during Stage 2 loadshedding, so here is a brief explanation.

City power buys 200MW from Kelvin Power Station, which is an independent power provider that supplies them directly.

Stage 2 requires that City Power shuts off 200MW of power (it’s 100MW per stage of load shedding).

Nationally Stage 1 is 1000MW, Stage 2 is 2000MW etc.

CoJ / City Power have been arguing that they should be allowed to offset their loadshedding requirements with the power they purchase directly from the Kelvin Power Station.

Eskom rejected this proposal in 2018, but seems to have now agreed to allow this offset - so now City power can keep power on up to Stage 2 (200MW).

This is a huge step in the right direction. Now CoJ / City Power need to see if they can work with Kelvin to try and increase their output so they can buy up to 600MW, which would allow them to offset up to Stage 6 loadshedding.

*Eskom keeping the City in the dark, again - 16 October 2019*

“In December 2018, we received a letter from Eskom stating that the City could not offset our load shedding requirements with the power independently generated from the Kelvin Power Station.

Kelvin Power Station is an independent power producer that the City had been contracted to for the procurement of additional electricity as and when required. Upon taking office, Eskom withdrew from funding this arrangement and left the City to foot the bill.

We have informed Eskom that we reject their position of refusing our request to offset load shedding with independently generated power, and are willing to proceed to the courts to fight for the residents of Johannesburg to receive this benefit for which they are already paying.

If our residents are paying for it, and it is not being generated by Eskom, there is no rational basis for preventing us from using the 200MW produced at Kelvin to mitigate the crippling effects of load shedding.

This is equivalent to what we have to shed in Johannesburg during stage 2 load-shedding.

My intent goes beyond this. A team from the City is engaging the Kelvin Power Station to see whether a new contract could be negotiated that would see their output increased, and sold to the City at a cheaper rate than Eskom.

If this is achieved, the City has the license to procure 600MW from Kelvin, which has the ability to prevent all load shedding up to, and including, Stage 6.
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Well Stage 2 it is for JHB, Kelvin lost a line when the Substation popped on Saturday night.
 
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