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Cape Town updates loadshedding schedule, while City Power now has awesome search

As the country is gears up for more loadshedding in the coming months, the City of Cape Town has updated its schedule of which areas will be getting powercuts.

Cape Town had to update its planned outage schedule after many residents complained that the old system inconvenienced the poorer areas the most, as those residents tend to be home during the day when the worst bouts of loadshedding begins.

“With this new schedule, the City will ensure that residents always experience scheduled power outages at a different time and weekday than before, thereby rotating the inconvenience of power outages across all supply areas”, said the City’s mayoral committee member for utility services, councillor Ernest Sonnenberg, in a press statement.

An updated schedule is a welcome sight, but there is still a fundamental problem with it: the presentation of the information leaves a lot to be desired.

To see when you will be sitting in the dark, you first have to click on the .jpg or PDF file to determine your area number. And once you have that, you have to refer to the archaic stage tables like the one below, and find your area number on a specific day.

Cape Town shedding

“An insert with the new loadshedding schedule and an area map of the different supply areas across the city will be distributed with community newspapers during the last week of January 2015. Residents are advised to keep these and to refer to the schedule and the map so that they can take the necessary precautions whenever loadshedding is required by Eskom,” the City explained.

In comparison, Johannesburg’s City Power has a wonderful interactive map that explains exactly when loadshedding will take place in your area.

JHB

 

While there are a number of alternatives to getting loadshedding information, it is about time that municipalities take the country’s power problem more seriously by developing easy-to-use systems for the country to access info quickly and reliably.

[Source – City of Cape Town]

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