Why some areas never get load shedding

[satanboy]

Why some areas never get load shedding

Dinner by candlelight conversations often get heated when a guest boasts that they are exempt from load shedding.

Because some people are more equal than others.

 

[satanboy]

I have been complaining about this to City of Cape Town. My brother in law lives in the same suburb about a 1 kilometer away. He has never been load-shedded, ever! Meanwhile whenever load shedding is announce, we are affected. Half our suburb is dark and the other half brightly lit. City of Cape Town have yet to answer me. To my knowledge there are no "Critical" infrastructure in my suburb.

Write to the Mayor.

 

[Gordon_R]

I drove through two areas in CT that never seem to get load-shed this morning:
Newlands (near VIP residences)

That would also make me a VIP, i.e. a Very Indignant Person

I just remembered that Newlands also has two major sports stadiums, though certainly not activity every day of the week! I guess it is complex enough to work the schedules, without breaking down the map into tiny areas that circle around these venues.

Edit: I also figure that the water storage reservoir in Newlands Forest qualifies as critical infrastructure!

 

[Mighty]

apparently Soweto does'nt get load shed....EVER yet here in Sandton we can get it 3 to 4 times a week on a bad week
it makes sense, why would the government ***** on their own doorstep? Why would p!ss off the people that kept you in power?

 

[Nokkie]

3/4 of South Africa's electricity supplies go to neighboring countries... FYI

 

[DA-LION-619]

3/4 of South Africa's electricity supplies go to neighboring countries... FYI

That makes no sense, why do neighboring countries need power when all their citizens are here

 

[qwertydudeza]

3/4 of South Africa's electricity supplies go to neighboring countries... FYI

Where on earth do you come with this.
Please provide proof than shooting off garbage.
I know our offices in Gabarone in Botswana can have shedding upto 5 hours a day in the past few weeks!

 

[vaakseun]

Yeah he's talking nonsense. SA is a net importer.

 

[Sinbad]

Yeah he's talking nonsense. SA is a net importer.

Indeed.
Eskom generates something like three quarters of the electricity generated in sub Saharan Africa. But uses most of it in SA. Doesn't export much at all, and imports a fair chunk from cahora bassa.

 

[vaakseun]

and imports a fair chunk from cahora bassa.

And from Namibia when they have good rains in the northern parts.

 

[Swa]

Sorry, not following...?

You complained about people leaving a bunch of computers and tv's on for no reason as they have backup and that these people should be load shedded instead. If they have backup then it's not going to help as they would be storing power during low loads and using it during load shedding.

 

[ellyally]

You complained about people leaving a bunch of computers and tv's on for no reason as they have backup and that these people should be load shedded instead. If they have backup then it's not going to help as they would be storing power during low loads and using it during load shedding.

And? Its low load, so no load shedding so they can do what they want. During load shedding if they are using the majority then yes, cut them off instead of us that aren't.

 

[Polymathic]

Essential areas like the harbors do receive loadshedding AFAIK

 

[Compton_effect]

3/4 of South Africa's electricity supplies go to neighboring countries... FYI

What are you smoking? Botswana - 500 MW, Namibia -300 MW (When they aren't exporting to us), Mozambique exports to us, Zimbabwe - ah **** it, I don't remember the amount. But they buy a fraction of the electricity that our unwashed masses steal every day.

Ignorant statements like that is why we are in the **** we are in now.

 

[Wasabee!]

That makes no sense, why do neighboring countries need power when all their citizens are here

Because there were multi year supply deals signed with other countries. Same with large industry. They can turn them off, but then have to compensate for lost revenue.

 

[Swa]

And? Its low load, so no load shedding so they can do what they want. During load shedding if they are using the majority then yes, cut them off instead of us that aren't.

You were complaining about all the stuff they keep on because load shedding won't affect them. So how is cutting them off going to help if they'll still just use the power that was stored thereby still not affecting them?

 

[ellyally]

You were complaining about all the stuff they keep on because load shedding won't affect them. So how is cutting them off going to help if they'll still just use the power that was stored thereby still not affecting them?

No, thats not what I was say. I'm not saying load shedding doesn't affect him because he's running backup, I'm saying he doesn't care if there is load shedding or not because he can run on backup so it doesn't affect him(hope that makes better sense?). When eskom says we are in stage one use power wisely etc and areas start going off, my buddy doesn't care and will still turn everything on because if his area is hit, he can turn on his batteries, genies etc. I'm not saying him using his own stored power during shedding is a problem, its the pre shedding where he doesn't care is the problem, he has no reason or incentive to turn anything off or conserve energy because if his area is hit, he's back up and running in no time(i.e. it doesn't affect him). If his house isn't hit during load shedding he's still draining the grind(like in the e.g., every one is outside, but blocks XYZ and thousands of houses around the country are in the dark). So, having the limiting in place will now force him, and people like him, to reduce load and help a little with the situation, or to be load shed like normal, in which case, he'll just turn on his backups.

 

[Swa]

No, thats not what I was say. I'm not saying load shedding doesn't affect him because he's running backup, I'm saying he doesn't care if there is load shedding or not because he can run on backup so it doesn't affect him(hope that makes better sense?). When eskom says we are in stage one use power wisely etc and areas start going off, my buddy doesn't care and will still turn everything on because if his area is hit, he can turn on his batteries, genies etc. I'm not saying him using his own stored power during shedding is a problem, its the pre shedding where he doesn't care is the problem, he has no reason or incentive to turn anything off or conserve energy because if his area is hit, he's back up and running in no time(i.e. it doesn't affect him). If his house isn't hit during load shedding he's still draining the grind(like in the e.g., every one is outside, but blocks XYZ and thousands of houses around the country are in the dark). So, having the limiting in place will now force him, and people like him, to reduce load and help a little with the situation, or to be load shed like normal, in which case, he'll just turn on his backups.

Yes I know that's what you were saying. But my question is if load shedding doesn't affect him then what incentive does he have with or without limiting?

 

[ellyally]

Yes I know that's what you were saying. But my question is if load shedding doesn't affect him then what incentive does he have with or without limiting?

Ah, well, none, he is who he is. And, he shouldn't have to, but we're in this situation and it is what it is, I just think if everyone was a little more thoughtful of their usage we wouldn't have load shedding. Limiting should address this. Eg, under limiting, if we have say 1million houses(suck numbers out backside, no stats etc, just an example), and 200k of those houses account for 50% of the usage, getting each of those 200k to reduce their loads just a little could mean all 1million still have power, vs having to load shed a few hundred thousand of them. But yeah, just my take on it.

 

[kianm]

No power cuts for me the past week, though we used to get moderately cut off sometimes. Not sure what has changed