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From what I've heard (friends who worked there for a month), electricity in South Africa is demential. For example there's a timetable to know when you will hav
by otherme123 3y ago
From what I've heard (friends who worked there for a month), electricity in South Africa is demential. For example there's a timetable to know when you will have, probably, four hours of electricity tomorrow and for the next week. You cannot make extrapolations from that.
- zo1 3y agoYou are 100% correct. They have planned "blackouts" according to a schedule so that it's fair and everyone gets a turn. However the schedule is based on how heavily the strain on the network is, which they regularly fiddle with. There are even apps now that notify people of blackouts planned for their area and help them make some sense of the chaos. Luckily (or not) they have huge strain on the network atm so they pretty much said "nope, perpetually stage 6" so at least people know what to expect for the coming days. It still catches so many people off guard and they're forced to make plans for dinner as an example. And yet they're refuse to allow solar users to push back to the grid easily. It's madness and the government is making itself obsolete, which will medium term affect the poor the most.
- pyrale 3y ago> And yet they're refuse to allow solar users to push back to the grid easily. Grid solar (and even more wind) is harder to handle than a plant that can be modulated. If they can't handle their plants or invest to fix their issues, I can understand that they don't have the means to handle solar.