Stage 1 loadshedding from 9am Monday

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Sinbad said:
Scheduled from midnight to 4:30
Power been off since just before 4pm, major substation trip on the Eskom side in Randvurg.

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And there's a power cable that snapped on President Fouche drive which is probably part of the problem. Also have loadshedding between 12 and 4 although I doubt whatever ****ed out this time will be fixed any time soon.
 
Methinks I'll now be ignoring much of everything Eskom has been claiming in this round, this old headline from January that I missed says they're back to just trying to manipulate, yet again!! :mad:

Blame tariffs, not state capture, says Eskom, as court battle with regulator looms

www.fin24.com

Blame tariffs, not state capture, says Eskom, as court battle with regulator looms | Business

As Eskom prepares to face off in court with energy regulator Nersa next week, it has placed the blame for its financial woes squarely on tariffs it says are too low.
www.fin24.com www.fin24.com

EDITED: didn't mention it's old.
 
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Düber said:
Some plans perhaps?
Released today.
https://etenders.treasury.gov.za/co...ission-monitoring-pretoria-west-power-station
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What a disgrace those tender documents are! Everything done according to fixed templates and still, they can't get it right without all sorts of systemic errors, grammatical mistakes and even technical flaws!
This stuff was my forte for 8 years, and it took me about 1 minute to see that document should never have been released in its current form.
 
Gordon_R said:
The weirdness continues: Stage 1 overnight, but not between 6am and 9am tomorrow:
www.fin24.com

No load shedding planned for Friday; no news yet for the weekend | Business

Despite the loss of some generating units, no power cuts were expected on Friday.
www.fin24.com www.fin24.com
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I have a feeling this is to accommodate the mines and smelters - I was near Middleburg on Saturday and stood in awe as the entire sky lit up when a nearby (couple of KM's away) smelter opened its doors and expelled the slag

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So today we had a demo of more gross incompetence in TSH.

Group 13 in PTA East was scheduled for LS stage 1 between 05:00 and 07:30. The new 6-9 amnesty kicked in during that period. How would TSH implement the new Amnesty periods? I said that they would write some crappy code which would boil down to a bolt-on timer which would operate independently from the main timers running the so-called LS schedules automatically. This bolt-on would not check before whether LS was active anywhere at the time when the new Amnesty is in progress and would simply override whatever was in place. While this would not be a problem at the start of the new Amnesty periods ( power would simply come back if you are in LS at the time), the add-on would cause a power flick when the Amnesty period ends because nothing would be put in place to verify and check if active LS periods had ended. The outcome would be a power flick for those that were in LS when the 6-9 amnesty period started and ended.

And that is exactly what happened. At just after 9 we had a power flick, a terrible power surge twice, once when the power cut when the amnesty period timer kicked in and minutes later a second when power returned because our LS period was over.
Just disgusting.
 
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Geoff.D said:
So today we had a demo of more gross incompetence in TSH.

Group 13 in PTA East was scheduled for LS stage 1between 05:00 and 07:30. The new 6-9 amnesty kicked in during that period. How would TSH implement the new Amnesty periods? I said that they would write some crappy code which would boil down to a bolt-on timer which would operate independently from the main timers running the so-called LS schedules automatically. This bolt-on would not check before whether LS was active anywhere at the time when the new Amnesty is in progress and would simply override whatever was in place. While this would not be a problem at the start of the new Amnesty periods ( power would simply come back if you are in LS at the time), the add-on would cause a power flick when the Amnesty period ends because nothing would be put in place to verify and check if active LS periods had ended. The outcome would be a power flick for those that were in LS when the 6-9 amnesty period started and ended.

And that is exactly what happened. At just after 9 we had a power flick, a terrible power surge twice, once when the power cut when the amnesty period timer kicked in and minutes later a second when power returned because our LS period was over.
Just disgusting.
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Written code for what? They (people driving vehicles) manually switch the areas scheduled for LS off and on...
 
So is it "automatic" in PTA, except when major outages are experienced, then people are deployed to some major nodes. Or so we have been told.
I won't be able to confirm this afternoon as we have no LS scheduled for the rest of the day in our area.
Will have to wait and see next time there is concurrence.
 
Geoff.D said:
So is it "automatic" in PTA, except when major outages are experienced, then people are deployed to some major nodes. Or so we have been told.
I won't be able to confirm this afternoon as we have no LS scheduled for the rest of the day in our area.
Will have to wait and see next time there is concurrence.
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I don't think so, else there would not be such discrepancies in the times.
 
I suppose it depends on many factors, such as the type and age of the infrastructure serving your area. I'm sure many older substations are manual, whereas some newer installations probably have remote switching or programmable timers.

I reckon my suburb is so small that sometimes they don't bother to drive out here if it is late at night, especially on a Sunday.
 
Sinbad said:
Scheduled from midnight to 4:30
Power been off since just before 4pm, major substation trip on the Eskom side in Randvurg.

Joy
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They took pity on us. Restored power at 10:20pm and then exempted us from the load shedding...
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Geoff.D said:
You don't need exemption. You already have a system that needs to be load tested :cool:
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Lol
At the consumption rate I was going, I would have been fine past 4am :D
(assuming the DoD is correct - I have a ticket open with the battery vendor for some weird jumps)

Also, would have gotten nearly 2 hours of charging in between restoration and load shedding, would have taken battery up over 80% again
 
PhireSide said:
#POWERALERT 2

Date: 11 February 2020

Eskom stops loadshedding at 21:00 today until 09:00 on Wednesday, with a high probability of stage 1 rotational loadshedding tomorrow.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1227270312192086017
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If you stop loadshedding UNTIL a specific time tomorrow then you aren't really saying there is a high probability, you are saying there will be not so?
 
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