Suburbs which don’t experience load shedding

[TEXTILE GUY]

Load curtailment .... sometimes worse than shedding.
You have to decrease your load by 10 or 20% stage dependant for 14 hours.

 

[Spotja]

Sebenza, Edenvale dose not get shed trying to move there due to some watertratment plant was told.

While Harmelia gets shed like crazy

 

[Gordon_R]

SAB Newlands installed an expensive oil-fired steam boiler during the first round of load-shedding (2008?). This qualifies them for peak-hour load curtailment, rather than load shedding. I don't know how many hours a day they run the boiler, but it's not just peak-hour anymore.

There are at least 4 different key-points in Newlands (and nearby Claremont, above the railway line), so logistically it may be easier to never cut off this (relatively small) suburb. There are no key-points across the railway line (extending into Lansdowne), which regularly gets shed (area 5).

 

[satanboy]

Canal Walk doesn't appear to ever turn off either.

Maybe they have generators?

 

[copacetic]

Claremont Central Business District

I must fall into this...

 

[calypso]

Maybe they have generators?

I don't think so. There is not so much as a blip on the line. All aircons, lights and geysers running. If it were gens they would have only covered the essentials.

 

[frailwings]

Live in Newlands, never had load shedding here. So it makes sense.

 

[thatshowiroll]

What is load shedding?

You win some you lose some... Pity the water there is often so muddy/dirty.

 

[vaakseun]

I assume military installations like Simonstown Naval Base and Ysterplaat Airforce Base don't get loadshedding either?

 

[Gordon_R]

I assume military installations like Simonstown Naval Base and Ysterplaat Airforce Base don't get loadshedding either?

I've also heard that areas around Yesterplaat (suburb called Brooklyn) don't get load-shed.

Canal Walk doesn't appear to ever turn off either.

Maybe beacuse Canal Walk also borders on Yesterplaat AFB!

 

[thatshowiroll]

I've also heard that areas around Yesterplaat (suburb called Brooklyn) don't get load-shed.



Maybe beacuse Canal Walk also borders on Yesterplaat AFB!

Other parts of Century City get pretty regular load shedding that are very close to CW.

 

[Garson007]

But not Wynberg or Century City ?

Century City seems very selective. The houses near Ysterplaat don't seem to get hit - I'm assuming because of Ysterplaat.

 

[AdrianH]

Sebenza, Edenvale dose not get shed trying to move there due to some watertratment plant was told.

I can confirm this. Complex never gets load shedding...SCORE!!

 

[Gordon_R]

Urban development in parts of Cape Town (and probably elsewhere) has been sporadic (infilling) over time, and new electricity connections are adapted to available supply (not always on a uniform grid pattern). Canal Walk (and Century City) did not exist 15 years ago, so it is not surprising that each part has power coming from separate substations (Brooklyn and Maitland).

Our block in Kenilworth is right on the edge between Area 5 & 11, and I can see new residences across the road are powered haphazardly (some from our substation via an underground cable, others from cables suspended on poles). Sometimes the City Council doesn't even know where all the cables run, when turning off our substation to connect a new complex!

 

[kianm]

Haven't been cut for quite a while now. Hope it lasts

 

[BlaQ_PhoeniX]

Protea heights seems to run it's own schedule. the other day, during stage 3...never went off, but the next day on stage 2, went off for 2 hours.

Try following the Scottsdene schedule.

 

[PseudZ]

Century City seems very selective. The houses near Ysterplaat don't seem to get hit - I'm assuming because of Ysterplaat.

Why can't they shed Ysterplaat? Surely the air force isn't doing anything critical.

 

[boerseun]

[video=youtube;WCAzalhldg8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCAzalhldg8[/video]
This is an eye opener. Note this video was already uploaded in 2008!

 

[CrazYmonkeY159]

I live in a wedge that sits between De Waterkant and Tamboerskloof and I still dont get shedded. And I havnt seen De Waterkant load shedded yet since last year

 

[mister]

This is an eye opener. Note this video was already uploaded in 2008!

You do realise that's not ZA?