Stage 7 load-shedding warning

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All these expert views reminds me of the covid peak prediction articles that we use to have.

During lockdown we had a experrt view every second article.
During loadshedding we have a expert view article every second article.
 
"spare grid capacity ... taken instead by private off-taker projects that could reserve the grid space"

Awfully convenient for Gwede. I bet a journalist would find some really interesting details about those projects. Also suspiscously long time to add more pylon capacity. I get that they aren't as trivial as to put up as they look but still 4 years seems long.
 
ajax said:
At least we can't go higher than Stage 8 because there are no schedules for higher stages.
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Not yet ... but they could define them in mins and put it out there. Remember when they defined up to 8 and we all wondered why the heck bother?
 
Apparently the situation we're in is much worse.

Chick at work knows someone who knows someone who knows someone who works at Eskom.

Apparently total blackout imminent.

But whatever.
 
Daily Investor said:
Stage 7 load-shedding warning

Peter Attard Montalto, head of capital markets research at Intellidex, said South Africans should brace themselves for consistent stage 7 load-shedding from July.
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If you install wind and Solar in the coastal areas, this would alleviate load on the lines bringing in power from the north. The percentage saved could make up partly the shortfall in the interior.
 
It doesn’t take an analyst to tell us on this forum that stage 7 load shedding is imminent. It is common knowledge that new power stations are not being built, so what do you expect. Me as a non-analyst is saying stage 8 is just around the corner then possible a grid collapse. :crying:
 
PAG said:
If you install wind and Solar in the coastal areas, this would alleviate load on the lines bringing in power from the north. The percentage saved could make up partly the shortfall in the interior.
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This is the obvious step1 for an actual solution. The thing is, SA is a socialist country, and it still has laws that deters solar investment. It is not only the ANC that is the problem, the DA is also a party that clings to central socialist control, as can be seen by their failed solar policies in their municipalities. Hopefully the DA can change now that the paw-paw is hitting the fan, and start implementing solar policies that does not aim to punish and exploit solar investment.
 
PAG said:
If you install wind and Solar in the coastal areas, this would alleviate load on the lines bringing in power from the north. The percentage saved could make up partly the shortfall in the interior.
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The load on the lines is not the problem.
 
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