Cape Town new load-shedding schedule

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Cape Town – Residents affected by the City of Cape Town’s load shedding schedule should prepare themselves for outages at different times during the day, due to their new staggered approach, which will be effective from February 1, 2015.

The city decided to change the way they roll out load shedding to ensure the times are more staggered, something many readers of News24 and Fin24 asked for.

However, for those who enjoyed having the same allotted time slot, the new plan will not be welcomed news.

The City of Cape Town said they decided to change it, because “some residents repeatedly experienced scheduled power outages at the most inconvenient times and days of the week”.

They said the old schedule was designed specifically for occasional load shedding during peak demand times, which has been the norm since 2008.

“In order to address this matter, the city has set up a new load shedding schedule that provides a more frequent rotation and is to be implemented in accordance with the days of the month instead,” they said.

As such, residents can get detailed information about load shedding through the following sources:

- www.capetown.gov.za/loadshedding for an area map and the time schedules for the different stages of load shedding (this will only be updated on February 1 with the new schedule)
- An explanation of load shedding
- Send an SMS to 31220
- Send an e-mail to the City of Cape Town to request more information
- Follow us on Twitter: @CityofCT
- Find us on Facebook: City of Cape Town
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Brawler said:
If your area is white, you can be sure that you will be loadshedded at the worst times.
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It was white under the previous system as well.

edit: that went right over my head :D
 
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This actually makes life a lot harder.

I understand they've done this because, firstly, regular weekend load shedding was never anticipated (as it was considered the least likely time) so the Saturday and Sunday schedules were identical for each area which was a little unfair, and secondly, because some loonies were whining that the schedule was racist.

But the end result is effectively random times that need a detailed schedule to work out.

At least before, if you knew that every Thursday at 6pm there was load shedding in your area, you could plan your life around it. By the sound of it, this is going to become a way of life for a while, so it would be much better to know that, for instance, you should never plan a dinner party for Thursday nights. But now, if you're planning something three weeks away on a specific day of the week, you have no clue whether there will be loadshedding without the schedule in front of you.
 
I'd love to be a fly on the wall on the meetings where they decide these load-shedding schedules. It's probably the most complicated thing you can ever have to decide! And whatever you do decide, people bitch and moan about it -- e.g. business will say -- oh come on, next door goes off at 8PM, but I'm off at 4PM. At the same time, people in houses will say -- I've had my breakfast and my dinner interrupted... boo hoo -- whereas everyone else gets cut when they are at work!

At the same time everyone is saying "it's too complicated" and other people are saying "I've got this little tweak which will make it 'fairer'"

Oh well, think I've figured it out. Given that there's no way of knowing if you'll be in stage 1, 2, 3 or 3b (or none) at any time though, you can never really plan either way.
 
TBH, I think this schedule is much better...

Yes it will be a bit painful the first few times as people figure out what Area they're in and such.. but once you've got that sorted the load shedding at least will be predictable and won't always be at the same time.
 
When they say "more frequent rotation", do they mean they'll reduce the current 150 minutes that each zone gets shed?
 
YingYang said:
When they say "more frequent rotation", do they mean they'll reduce the current 150 minutes that each zone gets shed?
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Change the slots you have more frequently. You won't get the 20:00-22:30 slot as often, you will be moved to 6:30-8:00 instead.
 
richjdavies said:
I'd love to be a fly on the wall on the meetings where they decide these load-shedding schedules. It's probably the most complicated thing you can ever have to decide!
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Looking at the schedule it seems like one just has to be able to repeatedly count from 1 to 16 on a calendar.
 
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