Load shedding troubles

[Martin Schoenmakers]

Dear all,

We are wondering if some/many/all of you experience the same problems with the load shedding schedule as we do. Our load shedding schedule in Chakupat group 3 is a bit of a joke. Many times, the power goes an hour early and comes back half an hour to an hour late, and we experience several unannounced power cuts totally besides the schedule, 15 minutes or more, at least one per day on average. For instance today we should have had 12:00 – 15:00 and 20:00 – 23:00, but the power only came back at 15:45 and left again at 18:10... and has not come back since.

There are no road widenings going on in our immediate area, except in front of TU campus, so I would doubt that to be the cause of this.

Is there any way we can team up and concert a bit of a group effort around this? Just now, I contacted the guys of Yalamandu. They have been very helpful in the past obtaining information from NEA, but naturally they cannot do much to change course. And if NEA has done an intermediate unannounced change to the schedule - as they have done in the past - why don't they keep their customers happy and publish it.

Any information is helpful. Thanks!

Martin

[Bernd Pawlik]

Dear Martin,
You are in Nepal, some things you just have to accept as they are.
You cannot change them ;-)
My advise after living in Nepal for 6 years.
Greetings
Bernd

[Ellen Coon]

Dear Martin,

I am no longer in Nepal, but I had very good luck directly calling the NEA phone number.  An old-ish guy would answer the phone.  I would tell him that the electricity had gone off an hour early, and he'd say, oh, really?  Ok, I'll give you an extra hour on the other end.  Sometimes he would say, it's only 15 minutes, so just deal with it.

It was an amazingly human, personal interaction such that we would never have in a Western country.  And that is why we love Nepal.  Give it a try.  And get yourself the best back-up system  you can afford.

Best,

Ellen

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[John Prokos]

Martin,

I think the word you meant to use was sarcasm, not irony. I don't know what you expected? A response custom tailored to your psychological needs perhaps?

I am sorry I wasted five minutes of my time in order to get an insult in return.

John

On Sep 28, 2012, at 6:25 PM, Martin Schoenmakers wrote:

Dear all,

 

Thanks a lot for all the heart warming responses I got on my load shedding trouble note. Lots of them. People trying to comfort me in an apparent assumption that I am new to this country (have been here for 8 years). People checking whether or not I love Nepal enough. People wanting me to pray for good faith (and more water I think). People explaining the power shortage problem to me like I am a six year old. People advising me to buy backup systems (have had a generator and several UPS’s for years). And... even some helpful tips!

 

Sorry for the irony... Thanks guys, I know why there is load shedding and I have been in Nepal long enough to know what’s going on. My plea is simply to not be passive about this unannounced schedule tampering, and I am trying to think of a way to exercise that plea. I don’t mind load shedding at all, but I dislike power cuts and dysfunctional schedules. Bad for business. So if there is not enough power to sustain the current schedule, what is more easy than to publish a new one - one would think. The current one is getting stale anyway... it’s over a month old! J

Cheers,

Martin