Stage 1 loadshedding from 9am Monday

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Sinbad said:
How do businesses not have some form of backup yet. It's been 12 years...
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They built a brand new Burger King by me, it has to close when there is any power failure due to no backup power. Yet all the other fast food places have got generators running, I mean wtf guys. Backup generators should be a must in 2020 in South Africa.
 
Geoff.D said:
Our 2-hour session turned into longer than 7 hours. Don't know what happened yet but suspect that another substation must have had a problem. No power from 17:00 till after midnight.
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common occurrence by us, if it isn't loadshedding it is cable theft or cable faults
 
dualmeister said:
Digital = electricity :rolleyes:
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digital means you take your phone or tablet with to the customer for them to sign on and the system emails then a copy of the invoice and delivery note, so yes whilst it is electricity if done right it can be done on portable devices which run on rechargeable batteries
 
Steamy Tom said:
digital means you take your phone or tablet with to the customer for them to sign on and the system emails then a copy of the invoice and delivery note, so yes whilst it is electricity if done right it can be done on portable devices which run on rechargeable batteries
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Still doesn't help testing a system before delivery or printing a serial number or doing the BOM :)
 
Sinbad said:
How do businesses not have some form of backup yet. It's been 12 years...
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Only 25% of companies generated a taxable profit. So they simply don't have the funds to buy enough backup power.

If you have light loads, then yes, it is easy enough to get UPS's, solar etc. but think of the heavy industries that needs 10's or 100's of KW of power to run their machines and factories.

It would be too expensive to get backup power for this.

Also, many businesses, like shops, are prevented from installating generators etc. if they are inside a shopping centre or are tenants in a complex. The landlords stop them.
 
Gaz{M} said:
Only 25% of companies generated a taxable profit. So they simply don't have the funds to buy enough backup power.

If you have light loads, then yes, it is easy enough to get UPS's, solar etc. but think of the heavy industries that needs 10's or 100's of KW of power to run their machines and factories.

It would be too expensive to get backup power for this.

Also, many businesses, like shops, are prevented from installating generators etc. if they are inside a shopping centre or are tenants in a complex. The landlords stop them.
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Hold up on that.
Remember, in some businesses, a profit isn't really desired.
For example, if someone is running a consulting company where they are the only employee, they are likely to pay less tax by deducting their expenses, then paying themselves a larger salary.
 
So unplanned outages dropped to the lowest levels since stage 6 loadshedding be we are still on stage 2 and Eskom is still using emergency reserves to supplement capacity.....

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cavedog said:
So unplanned outages dropped to the lowest levels since stage 6 loadshedding be we are still on stage 2 and Eskom is still using emergency reserves to supplement capacity.....

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They've taken more offline for planned maintenance. This planned figure is not included in the unplanned figure which gets published daily
 
FlashSA said:
They've taken more offline for planned maintenance. This planned figure is not included in the unplanned figure which gets published daily
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Likely. That would be a really good figure to have actually.
 
FlashSA said:
They've taken more offline for planned maintenance. This planned figure is not included in the unplanned figure which gets published daily
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Won't it be wonderful if they also stated figure for planed outages
 
Yesterday our LS in the afternoon resulted in a 7-hour outage.
The local shopping centre provides limited backup for lights and tills only. The PnP has is own backup generator. It ran fine in the morning. I live close enough to be able to hear it running. In the afternoon failure, it never started up. Hence the 7-hour outage now became a major issue. This morning you could not move in the shop. They were clearing all the refrigerated shelves and restocking with produce, which means all the stuff had defrosted and was no longer suitable for sale.
The takeaways were all scrambling to stay in business, with some simply shutting their doors. They also now presumably sit with perished unsaleable stock on their hands.

Imagine the loss now incurred. Never mind the lost turnover yesterday afternoon.
Load shedding is a massive economic tragedy and is just about the ONLY issue the govt should be focussing on.
Sure , you could argue that the local PnP management should have checked the generator and filled up the tanks.
 
FlashSA said:
They've taken more offline for planned maintenance. This planned figure is not included in the unplanned figure which gets published daily
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Yes three big units were taken offline last week I think (before the LS started late last week). They didn't specify which units.
 
konfab said:
Hold up on that.
Remember, in some businesses, a profit isn't really desired.
For example, if someone is running a consulting company where they are the only employee, they are likely to pay less tax by deducting their expenses, then paying themselves a larger salary.
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We're talking cash in hand...not profit and loss statements that are meaningless.

Not every business can afford to buy, implement and maintain proper backup solutions. It costs a lot of money.
 
Chris_the_Brit said:
Yes three big units were taken offline last week I think (before the LS started late last week). They didn't specify which units.
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Actually 3200MW additional taken offline for maintenance. Including three big units from Medupi and two other large stations.

So 10 000 unplanned+ 3200MW additional planned = 13200MW = Stage 2.
 
Assuming Eskom stopped City Power from using Kevin Power Station to prevent loadshedding.
 
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So unplanned outages has dropped to the lowest point, since December? At 9,817 MW
 
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