Unplanned outages exceed Eskom's load-shedding threshold

Bliksis said:
You don't think it is faults?
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to regular over to many areas for me to just accept it as faults, happy to be wrong, but anything to do with the ANC is red flag territory for me.

The one this week-end was 24 hours, the power went off and then immediately came back on about 4 times in rapid succession , was fine for half and hour then went off again.
 
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Bad Ballie said:
to regular over to many areas for me to just accept it as faults, happy to be wrong, but anything to do with the ANC is red flag territory for me.
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So you're arguing Durban's muni can't be THAT incompetent. There's a certain degree of incompetence and then it can't go any further than that?

Give it another decade. Nothing will work. It's not a conspiracy. It's just that your muni is run by morons that don't care about maintaining your infrastructure. Good luck.

This sort of thing isn't happening in Cape Town. Constant power this side. Weird how this conspiracy shadow loadshedding only seems to happen where munis are demonstrated to be incompetent. Almost as though it's just massive incompetence and not some conspiracy.
 
porchrat said:
So you're arguing Durban's muni can't be THAT incompetent. There's a certain degree of incompetence and then it can't go any further than that?

Give it another decade. Nothing will work. It's not a conspiracy. It's just that your muni is run by morons that don't care about maintaining your infrastructure. Good luck.

This sort of thing isn't happening in Cape Town. Constant power this side. Weird how this conspiracy shadow loadshedding only seems to happen where munis are demonstrated to be incompetent. Almost as though it's just massive incompetence and not some conspiracy.
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Edited my previous post to give more info. Yes the muni is highly incompetent, that doesn't mean they aren't also crooks. as for conspiracies, they have of recent had a solid grounding in reality in enough cases to be a valid point for consideration, denying that is unwise.
 
Bad Ballie said:
Edited my previous post to give more info. Yes the muni is highly incompetent, that doesn't mean they aren't also crooks. as for conspiracies, they have of recent had a solid grounding in reality in enough cases to be a valid point for consideration, denying that is unwise.
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Your muni makes money when it sells you electricity. It's a significant portion of their budget. Why would it cut off electricity and actively weaken revenue? Where is the motivation?

As I said. This isn't something happening across the country. It's just you and the handful of other garbage municipalities we see this happening in. Here in Cape Town it doesn't happen. Constant glorious power for basically 2 years now. If this is loadshedding in disguise why do you think that is? I'm even directly supplied by Eskom. No interruptions. Why is that?
 
Johnatan56 said:
For Durban, I'd argue incompetence/them not maintaining the infrastructure.
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Definitely part of it, they love just replacing 1 meter of a much longer cable because 'that's where it blew'. by the time it has blown enough times for the entire length to have been replaced you land up with a nice new cable with 4 dozen joints in it. mental prowess certainly isn't their strong point. I deal with them in my professional capacity as well, so...
 
wingnut771 said:
or stolen cables.
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Agreed, but also interesting that that can kind of only happen for a lot of it if the cable is not live, and how you have to have people on the inside to know about it. This is more a comment regarding Eskom's transmission lines, how farmers are having an interesting time with people stealing it on their land, was a Carte Blanche episode about it.
 
wingnut771 said:
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.
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Is it this one?

 
wingnut771 said:
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.
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BS
 
wingnut771 said:
Look, I'm not going to waste my time finding the scenes to take screenshots for you.
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Well luckily the doccy is here for everyone to see that your statement is pure BS. Lies have short legs buddy.
 
wingnut771 said:
Indeed. Have you watched it? I never lied.
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I've seen other doccies of Eskom power stations and some of them indeed have equipment sitting there with piles of ash on them higher than a man.

This particular doccie shown earlier that power station looks relatively clean. It's not spotless like many other power stations are overseas, but it doesn't seem like ash is piling up destroying the infrastructure.

with the general mess that is Eskom I'll take what I can get.
 
porchrat said:
I've seen other doccies of Eskom power stations and some of them indeed have equipment sitting there with piles of ash on them higher than a man.

This particular doccie shown earlier that power station looks relatively clean. It's not spotless like many other power stations are overseas, but it doesn't seem like ash is piling up destroying the infrastructure.

with the general mess that is Eskom I'll take what I can get.
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Indeed, it is relatively cleaner than the metres of ash covering other power stations. I wonder what that blaring alarm in the background that you could hear while he's giving his tour was for?
 
wingnut771 said:
Indeed, it is relatively cleaner than the metres of ash covering other power stations. I wonder what that blaring alarm in the background that you could hear while he's giving his tour was for?
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wasn't that just the machines working in the background grinding the coal?

I imagine they move pretty darn fast to process all the coal a beast like Kusile needs.
 
porchrat said:
wasn't that just the machines working in the background grinding the coal?

I imagine they move pretty darn fast to process all the coal a beast like Kusile needs.
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Not sure where it would come from, it looked all sealed up.

Still an interesting doccie, especially the black start stuff.
 
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