Eskom starting with their kak again

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    My stand manufacturing activities planned for tomorrow have been ruined and I'm furious. But never mind that. My father is an avid marine keeper, but packed it in due to load shedding. What methods and tricks do you all employ to survive extended outages?

    If I were a betting person, I'd be putting money on Ukraine klapping all the russian oil refineries is finally catching up to our energy generation...
     
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    they have been burning diesel daily whilst suffering a very tight liquidity situation. eskom didn't fix 20 years worth of maintenance and expansion in a one year period. Its just been, for political reasons, kept on the down low.
     
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    I am privileged to have a fairly huge solar system and don't really need Eskom. A little bit of micro managment in winter times with 18 + heaters running during the night but other than that, I am sorted.

    I have seen that fish are pretty content with having oxygen. Before my solar days I used a battery operated air pump. There is a few very affordable models on the market. If you have a sponge filter or airstone going, with a tank being indoors, I am convinced the fish will survive a power outage of few days.
     
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    Its just strange, its not the first time they announce loadshedding within a few days after their demands for huge price increases have been denied.
    They have burned the emergency diesel reserves, behind with payment, did not get the increase they hoped for, cant order new diesel fast enough without the 36% increase being added to their budget................ or its a case of throwing their toys because they did not get what they want.
     
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    Yeah i know the story and whether that is true or not is one thing. What is less speculative is the state the utility is in. Eskom will take many years to fix what it has fallen behind on with experts it no longer have (and more are leaving) - and then there's the expansion required for growth which is just not looking very realistic for a monolithic entity that has rotten away. Still a way before any of the newly signed power producer projects kick in.
    Just goes to show - while the lights were on and the reports stopped flowing, people started eating popcorn and watching trump. Out of sight and out of mind.
     
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    Why not build it around the load shedding. It's only 2 hours right
     
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    Yes, I will have to plan around it in future. Unfortunately I had stuff planned during the mid day today with a friend, so that neatly bisected the two periods of loadshedding. Today was just a waste - I just got home and the power is going off again in ten minutes.
     
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    Eish well it's looking better for this weekend hopefully
     
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    I hope so! I want to git crackin this weekend.
     
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    Photos incoming?
     
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    You know it! It's the Information age!
     
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