{"id":180932,"date":"2016-01-12T06:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T06:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=180932"},"modified":"2016-01-12T06:00:01","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T06:00:01","slug":"dumsor-report-kumasi-breman-worst-affected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=180932","title":{"rendered":"Dumsor report: Kumasi Breman worst affected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The January 2016 Dumsor Report shows remarkable improvement in load-shedding but <i>dumsor<\/i> may not have ended as declared by the Ministry of Power.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Continued monitoring shows that outages have, in fact, ticked up slightly since the beginning of the year. The question is whether these current outages are due to load-shedding or &#8220;localized outages,&#8221; as\u00a0the\u00a0former sector Minister referred to intermittent cuts.\u00a0The Bremang area of Kumasi\u00a0warrants\u00a0special mention for worst scores on most counts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">From December 25, 2015\u00a0to January 7, 2016\u00a0researchers gathered power outage data overlapping the holidays and the anticipated &#8220;end of dumsor.&#8221; Consumers reported from 40 areas: 35 in the Greater Accra Region, 3 in Ashanti, 1 in Eastern, and 1 in Volta.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Analysis of the data shows the following results:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Half of the areas covered had power 100 percent of the time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Kumasi Bremang\u00a0was at the bottom of the table\u00a0with power 82 percent of the time, or an average of 19 hours and 41 minutes each day<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Kumasi Bremang\u00a0also took the title for longest DUM: 27 hours and 15 minutes from <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1328938002\"><span class=\"aQJ\">7 p.m.<\/span><\/span> on January 3 to <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1328938003\"><span class=\"aQJ\">10:15 p.m.<\/span><\/span> on January 4<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On\u00a0average, each\u00a0area had power\u00a098 percent of the time, or 23 hours and 33 minutes each day. This compares with 57 percent in May and 82 percent in September<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<ul>\n<li>About 39 percent\u00a0of the time, all areas had light, compared with May when there was never a moment when all areas had light<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Less load-shedding also meant fewer disco lights. On that measure, Kumasi Bremang shares the title with Ashongman Estates in Accra, both with 12 disco lights in the period, but still nothing compared with Weija Old Barrier&#8217;s 38 in May<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Nsawam got the worst <i>body sha\u00a0<\/i>\u00a0(also known as\u00a0<i>ma tricki wo<\/i>) on January 3, with a burst of <i>sor<\/i> for 14 minutes, starting at <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1328938004\"><span class=\"aQJ\">2:59 p.m.<\/span><\/span>before going back to <i>dum\u00a0<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>The\u00a0brightest day\u00a0was December 28 when power was supplied more than 99% of the time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Amanfrom Adenta Dodowa had a black Christmas with dum for almost four hours on that &#8220;holy&#8221; night<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Amanfrom again had <i>dum<\/i> on New Year&#8217;s Day. But this time, they shared the title with Amarahia (Valley View), Ashongman Estates, Batsonaa Spintex, Pantang Abokobi, Race Course, and West Legon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>The week after the announcement of the &#8220;End of Dumsor&#8221; was slightly worse than the week before<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Dumsor Report\u00a0is a quantitative analysis of load-shedding patterns as experienced by consumers. Volunteer consumers report each time their power goes on or off .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The January report is in the form of four main charts:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Summary infographic<\/li>\n<li>Timeline of on\/off for each area<\/li>\n<li>Chart of the total amount of power received by consumers for the period<\/li>\n<li>Ranking of amount of power received by area<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The report is funded and produced by Kobina Aidoo, a citizen,\u00a0with Felicia Efua Arthur as research assistant. The report is primarily\u00a0for the sake of public information to improve management and regulation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/abb72ff5-3e87-42fe-802c-33d03e3a0519.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-180935 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/abb72ff5-3e87-42fe-802c-33d03e3a0519.jpg\" alt=\"abb72ff5-3e87-42fe-802c-33d03e3a0519\" width=\"997\" height=\"503\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/badee991-ef5a-4c27-be1e-e7931e1408dc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-180936 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/badee991-ef5a-4c27-be1e-e7931e1408dc.jpg\" alt=\"badee991-ef5a-4c27-be1e-e7931e1408dc\" width=\"653\" height=\"503\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/4a25ac62-fda0-4ec8-aa3e-c6cf01f6ab3e.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-180934 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/4a25ac62-fda0-4ec8-aa3e-c6cf01f6ab3e-1024x483.jpg\" alt=\"4a25ac62-fda0-4ec8-aa3e-c6cf01f6ab3e\" width=\"620\" height=\"292\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Credit:\u00a0Kobina Aidoo<br \/>\nemail:\u00a0reportdumsor@gmail.com<br \/>\n@DumsorReport<br \/>\nFacebook.com\/dumsorreport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The January 2016 Dumsor Report shows remarkable improvement in load-shedding but dumsor may not have ended as declared by the Ministry of Power. Continued monitoring shows that outages have, in fact, ticked up slightly since the beginning of the year. The question is whether these current outages are due to load-shedding or &#8220;localized outages,&#8221; as\u00a0the\u00a0former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}