Unplanned outages exceed Eskom's load-shedding threshold

[mylesillidge]

Eskom breakdowns exceed load-shedding threshold

Eskom has reported that breakdowns at its power plants were at 15,137 MW on Friday afternoon, over the threshold at which it previously warned that stage 2 load-shedding may be necessary.

Despite the high unplanned outages and icy weather conditions in parts of South Africa, Eskom said available generation capacity was enough to meet peak demand.

 

[wingnut771]

Thank goodness its the weekend with lower demand.

Go Boks!

 

[dualmeister]

 

[KleinBoontjie]

But how can it break down, they then got the increase and hikes they wanted?

 

[Mekon]

With all these breakdowns and "repairs" that have been going on for years you would have thought everything would have been repaired and in good working condition but then this is South Africa and repairs are probably the bare minimum just to get the unit operational again.

 

[borro]

 

[borro]

With all these breakdowns and "repairs" that have been going on for years you would have thought everything would have been repaired and in good working condition but then this is South Africa and repairs are probably the bare minimum just to get the unit operational again.

Too many wires

 

[wingnut771]

But how can it break down, they then got the increase and hikes they wanted?

which improved morale

 

[wingnut771]

With all these breakdowns and "repairs" that have been going on for years you would have thought everything would have been repaired and in good working condition but then this is South Africa and repairs are probably the bare minimum just to get the unit operational again.

Watched a doccie about Kusile, on the tour you can see all the ash covering everything with alarms blaring in the background.

Now this is on a power station that is not even finished yet, imagine what the old ones look/sound like.

 

[Mekon]

Watched a doccie about Kusile, on the tour you can see all the ash covering everything with alarms blaring in the background.

Now this is on a power station that is not even finished yet, imagine what the old ones look/sound like.

Sounds like the usual cANCer win win

 

[Bliksis]

Yaaaaaawn

 

[franz]

switching off street lights during the day might help a bit too

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

doccie about Kusile,

Link? love to watch it as well, loved reading ADR's book, really gave us common folk a look into how our taxes are used to fund incompetence and wastage,
I mean they barely try to hide it anymore, its simple too obvious.

 

[wingnut771]

Link? love to watch it as well, loved reading ADR's book, really gave us common folk a look into how our taxes are used to fund incompetence and wastage,
I mean they barely try to hide it anymore, its simple too obvious.

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

thanks for this, looking at it, thought to myself how many points of failure and sabotage there are,
sure they couldn't show the control room and how it operates due to security concerns, at least they aren't complexity stupid
but to me, it looks like a lot of manual process and labor intensive systems they have,

I suppose they didn't take lessons from elsewhere in the world, where power stations are the pride of a nation.
here they just look like a all you can eat buffet for criminals and thieves.

I suppose they need to keep the restaurant for Cadres open 24/7.

 

[Bad Ballie]

We don't have load shedding anymore, Durban now seems to shut down entire areas for 12 hours plus and calls it 'faults'

 

[Bliksis]

We don't have load shedding anymore, Durban now seems to shut down entire areas for 12 hours plus and calls it 'faults'

You don't think it is faults?

 

[Johnatan56]

We don't have load shedding anymore, Durban now seems to shut down entire areas for 12 hours plus and calls it 'faults'

For Durban, I'd argue incompetence/them not maintaining the infrastructure.

 

[porchrat]

We don't have load shedding anymore, Durban now seems to shut down entire areas for 12 hours plus and calls it 'faults'

That just sounds like business as usual for Durban.

I don't get it are you surprised your municipality is incompetent or something here?

Wait until actual loadshedding happens again. You conspiracy folks are going to schit your collective pants.

 

[wingnut771]

For Durban, I'd argue incompetence/them not maintaining the infrastructure.

or stolen cables.