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My point is that before "Gold plating" of the networks, load shedding was a common occurrence in hot weather.
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Dont disagree, but my point was a lot of money got spent ( made ) doing a lot of irrelevant stuff in an inefficient manner to gold plate the "poles and wires", vs "the network".
Ref the old thread
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...52&postcount=8
One lot of people came to replace my relatively new supply wire with a new one. Not withstanding the lame reason for doing this, they didnt fix the cross bar or do the neighbours house at the same time?????
Since then a separate crew did the neighbours house and late last year yet another crew came through and did the crossbars.
All were different contractors.
Just a waste of time and money, it would probably have all been done at the same time under the old SEC.
Re Aircons being the culprits etc, fully agree, but with our govt allowing whole blocks to be covered with multi units, or McMansions with black roofs, no eaves and no gardens, we are also increasing the "heat island" effects.
Its interesting out my way as i have heard that some of the local sewerage systems are getting near their capacity as single houses are being replaced by buildings with 10-30 units in them.
This could lead to brownouts rolling
instead of rolling brownouts
Andrew
Andrew