Two time-zone plan for SA?

My sister's head office is located in the US. That's a 7 hour time difference and she manages to cope relatively well with it, except for the odd conference call at some late hour. Again I say that the US manages it perfectly well, and they have every kind of business we have. They're talking of cutting power from 6:00PM until 10:00PM. Would you rather have the inconvenience of not being able to reach someone in say JHB for an hour, at the end of the day at the office, or would you rather have four hours without power?
I'm not saying this is great and wonderful... I'd rather have it not be necessary but it would be making the best of a bad situation. The challenge is to minimize the impact of this mess and not just complain about how it affects us and refusing to do something to change it. I understand the sentiment that we've given up more than our fair share in order to live in this country and I agree whole-heartedly with it but being stubborn and refusing to change won't help anything. Say someone burnt down your company's offices and they weren't insured or something, which lead to the eventual closing of said company. Would you not go out looking for another job, even if you have to work funny hours? Same sort of situation at the moment in the country. Sacrifice in order to survive.
 
Look, your arguement is perfectly valid. Mine is based mostly on the principle of the situation. But I agree, if this really can eradicate power cuts, then there really wouldnt be that much of an issue. It is certainly not making the best of a bad situation. If you look at the stats, Eskom's current capacity is sufficient to provide power to the whole of SA. It has been operationally where they have let down consumers.

TBO, I dont have that much of an issue with dual time zones so long as it wont negatively impact corporates too much. If it requires a corporate to add or change ERP, Bi or any software systems then it can have a significant impact. Not sure if this would require that much of a change, but lets see.
 
What puzzles me is how they plan to actually *save* 200MW with this. I can understand the moving peak time thing, but saving?
 
The moving of peak times IS the saving. They don't have giant batteries that save up electricity generated during off peak times, they have a set capacity. If demand goes up, they can increase production to try and meet it, but if demand is higher than possible production, you get powercuts. What these guys are trying to do is drop those peak values.
DJStealth, I totally see your point and I agree with you. Incompetence is to blame for this, we all know it but it doesn't seem like that's going to change any time soon, unfortunately.
 
Pitbull said:
Well tbh Capetown is about 1 hour behind ;)

I don't see the problem :confused:
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Capetonians is/was always behind :D . It not the timezone issue as much as the so called reasoning behind it, pinned as solutions to self inflicted strife. Can just take it where it comes from.

The only way IMHO that this will effectively save power is the East Rand is time shifted with the West Rand with +- 2 hours. The Idea of time shifting only Cape Town is IMHO as stupid as the person offering such a solution for the wrong reasons in the first place.
 
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we still get bloody londoners think that that 3pm is 4pm SA time when their clocks shift :mad:

just needed to vent that.
 
Molefe said that this plan would not just be good for getting back about 200 megawatts of electricity,but that it would also be good for sectors like the airline industry, which she said could "fly a lot longer each day".
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The value of implementing daylight savings is debatable.

My problem is that DPE wants to do this based on the possibility of gaining a measly 200MW. This is not enough of a return to warrant a step of this nature. I hope things are not really this desperate because Winter is coming and that 5000MW shortfall due to "unplanned maintenance" was supposedly being addressed in the 1st phase of Duhwin's plan (to have Industry save 10% energy). Focus Alec, focus :(.
 
fskmh said:
I hope things are not really this desperate because Winter is coming and that 5000MW shortfall due to "unplanned maintenance" was supposedly being addressed in the 1st phase of Duhwin's plan (to have Industry save 10% energy). Focus Alec, focus :(.
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That might be asking a bit much of the man who spent the majority of the power crisis in the Bahamas! He doesnt even understand what kinda power crisis we are talking about here! Focus is a completely new term to him and I believe he might even consult with his optometrist before he does anyting remotely worthwhile!
 
UnoPanelvan said:
http://www.24.com/news/?p=tsa&i=856742

Now I've heard it all. WTF is the matter with these overnight wet dreamers, what a plan to save energy? all it would do is time shift the load and then creates so much confusion that it will cost the country more on the end of the day.
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Since SAST was established, we have had no problems with (time) zones. These idiots are really taking stupidity to a new level.
 
Cape Town already got Dual Time Zones - Beach Time and Work Time. :D In any case I wouldn't mind getting up an hour later in the winter.
 
Molefe said ... that it would also be good for sectors like the airline industry, which she said could "fly a lot longer each day".
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Planes only fly during the day?
 
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