Stage 2 Load-Shedding [22/03/2019]

Some detail on the losses
Boiler-tube leak repairs accounted for 2 717 MW of those unplanned losses, which also included losses from a stuck ash system of 593 MW, generator repairs of 1 125 MW, turbine repairs of 1 682 MW, high-pressure pipework repairs of 1 168 MW, partial load losses of 3 702 MW and outage delays of 754 MW.
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and coal quality,
Eskom also reports that coal quality-related load losses continue, having fluctuated between 200 MW and 500 MW a day during the 2018/19 financial year to date, making up an average of 7.9% of partial losses.
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R13... said:
Some detail on the losses


and coal quality,
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This is quite shocking (from the link). So for 18 months they haven't done maintenance on the boilers? Dafuq...that is something that is VERY important to do!

The rise in boiler-tube leaks has been partly attributed to the fact that a boiler health maintenance contract, which expired in late 2017, had not been renewed, which had undermined Eskom’s ability to perform preventative maintenance.

COO Jan Oberholzer said that when the contract was in place, a service provider had been performing ongoing assessments of the state of the boiler tubes across the utility’s 15 coal-fired power. The diagnosis had then been fed into Eskom’s preventative-maintenance planning system so that leaks and likely future leaks could be addressed during planned outages.

“Eighteen months ago that contract was stopped [and] we are in the process of getting it placed. Hopefully we will get it placed this week. The issue is an internal issue, so we cannot blame anybody but ourselves that this contract is not in place,” Oberholzer explained.
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Helps me very little, I only skipped one scheduled outage, this mornings one. We are still going off at 12h00 even on stage 1. So FU once again Eskom.

And I forgot to lock the gate to keep the dog behind the house last night and he terrorized the security guys endlessly. When I heard him going berserk outside I just decided f it, let him bite whoever walks around in the dark, I'm to tired to give a ****.
 
Chris_the_Brit said:
This is quite shocking (from the link). So for 18 months they haven't done maintenance on the boilers? Dafuq...that is something that is VERY important to do!
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The service just identifies or predicts leaks doesn't necessarily mean they don't do repairs.
 
Chris_the_Brit said:
This is quite shocking (from the link). So for 18 months they haven't done maintenance on the boilers? Dafuq...that is something that is VERY important to do!
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You make for a kuk comrade... How in gods name do you expect money to be looted if its wasted on this 'maintenance' thing?
 
Just finished the last of our 9.5 hrs for the day.
 
copacetic said:
That is insane, why are the blocks so long in (PE?). My folks are there, and the schedule is bananas.
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They're not. That's just Bwanas particular area paying for their sins.
 
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