Pemadaman Listrik / Electricity Blackouts

[serious_fun]

Everybody is getting so tired of these 'rolling blackouts'... and some neighbours with personal/home power generators are creating tension with those living around them due to noise issues.



PLN Says Java's Rolling Blackouts Are Starting to Decline

State-owned electricity company PT PLN (Persero) announced that one of the two power plants that had previously suffered operational disruptions has been reconnected to the Java power grid, marking a step toward easing the rolling blackouts that have affected parts of Indonesia’s most populous island over the past two weeks.

PLN President Director Darmawan Prasodjo said the restored power plant resumed operations on Sunday evening, June 21.

Of course, thoughts and prayers are with those who actually lost their life recently across Indonesia, and/or suffered due to the damage to water treatment facilities. Those issues put my 3 hour blackouts in perspective.

 

[Bad_azz]

We had a blackout that we didn't know was coming, screwed with the business for the day, next day we had to go out shopping- 2 trolleys full as it was our "big shop" and power died as we were halfway through checking out... it was hilarious, half the goods scanned, the staff panicking, generator kicked in, tills didn't in the part of the supermarket we were in.
They managed to get some of them back on line on a different floor, so there was a whole boxing and relocating thing going on.
Finally at the new checkout I was stood there with my phone torch shining for 30 minutes as the cashier had to write all the codes, item names and prices down, then add them all up with a calculator.
Eh, back in the day this would have been a huge nothing burger. Oh how we rely on tech far too much these days.
Anyhow, I now have at least a part schedule of when mine will be out , so all the rechargables are fully charged and ready to rock for tonight's planned outage.
I wouldn't dream of being pissed cos my neighbours had gensets, I would be jealous.
I kinda expected this to be a thing at some point, there have been too many stressors on the systems.

 

[jstar]

Many of my neighbors also have gone ‘solar’. Everybody happy.

 

[centurion]

Many of my neighbors also have gone ‘solar’. Everybody happy.

Solar like diesel genset or solar panels?

 

[harryopal1]

We had a blackout that we didn't know was coming, screwed with the business for the day, next day we had to go out shopping- 2 trolleys full as it was our "big shop" and power died as we were halfway through checking out... it was hilarious, half the goods scanned, the staff panicking, generator kicked in, tills didn't in the part of the supermarket we were in.
They managed to get some of them back on line on a different floor, so there was a whole boxing and relocating thing going on.
Finally at the new checkout I was stood there with my phone torch shining for 30 minutes as the cashier had to write all the codes, item names and prices down, then add them all up with a calculator.
Eh, back in the day this would have been a huge nothing burger. Oh how we rely on tech far too much these days.
Anyhow, I now have at least a part schedule of when mine will be out , so all the rechargables are fully charged and ready to rock for tonight's planned outage.
I wouldn't dream of being pissed cos my neighbours had gensets, I would be jealous.
I kinda expected this to be a thing at some point, there have been too many stressors on the systems.

"Oh how we rely on tech far too much these days." I can remember a time nearly 80 years ago living in a little country town in Victoria named Cockatoo." At the grocer on busy Saturday mornings people waited patiently as orders were taken. Half a pound of tea, weighed and put in a paper bag. A pound of white flour, weighed and put in a paper bag. And so on. Quite a process.