Re: [tlug] Power outages

[Taisuke Yamada <tai@example.com>]

Latest news. Announced PDFs do not contain all outage areas / contain
some errors.
This outage was announced as it'd be better to have planned outage
rather than unexpected random outage (outage itself was inevitable
anyway after nuke power plant failure), but for tomorrow, I guess we
need to be prepared for some rough time...

Link:
http://www.nikkei.com/news/headline/article/g=96958A9C93819696E3E1E2E5958DE3E1E2E1E0E2E3E3E2E2E2E2E2E2

> Hi. Some updates:
>
> - During outage, everything in the area, from bank ATMs to traffic
> signals will be down.
> - Chiyoda-ku, Chuuou-ku, and Minato-ku are not part of this power outage.
>  (There are just too many head quarters of major industry /
> government in these districts...)
> - For Mar 15 and after, outage plan will be announced before 18:00, of
> the day before.
>
> It seems TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Corp)'s website is extremely
> unresponsive, so I've
> uploaded mine to dropbox. You can download it from
>
> - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16494948/tepco/tepco-outage-area-code.zip
>
> And currently announced outage schedule:
>
>  Group#1: max 3h during 06:20-10:00 AND max 3h during 16:50-20:30
> (latter might not be needed)
>  Group#2: max 3h during 09:20-13:00 AND max 3h during 18:20-22:00
> (latter might not be needed)
>  Group#3: max 3h during 12:20-16:00
>  Group#4: max 3h during 13:50-17:30
>  Group#5: max 3h during 15:20-19:00
>
> Note both area code and outage schedule could get updated, depending
> on how this turns out.
> This is the first time ever for TEPCO in its ~60year history, so it
> seems they also need some more
> actual data to refine their plan.
>
> Links:
> - http://www.nikkei.com/news/headline/article/g=96958A9C93819696E3E1E2E7878DE3E1E2E1E0E2E3E3E2E2E2E2E2E2
> - http://www.nikkei.com/news/headline/article/g=96958A9C93819696E3E1E2E4998DE3E1E2E1E0E2E3E3E2E2E2E2E2E2
> - http://www.nikkei.com/news/headline/related-article/g=96958A9C93819696E3E1E2E7E68DE3E1E2E1E0E2E3E3E2E2E2E2E2E2
> - http://gigazine.net/news/20110313_rolling_blackouts/
>
>>> Looking at NHK it seems we are in for some pretty painful power outages
>>> till at least the end of the month.
>>>
>>> Apparently they need at least 41,000,000 Kw but can currently only
>>> produce 31,000,000 Kw.  As a result there will be scheduled power
>>> outages.  The power outages are apparently going to be by zones but the
>>> haven't provided any information about were the zones are.
>>>
>>> 1.  6:20am ~ 10:00am
>>>    4:50pm ~  8:30pm
>>>
>>> 2.  9:20am ~  1:00pm
>>>    6:20pm ~ 10:00pm
>>>
>>> 3. 12:20pm ~  4:00pm
>>>
>>> 4.  1:50pm ~  5:30pm
>>>
>>> 5.  3:20pm ~  7:00pm
>>
>> I was wondering what those little numbers on the PDFs were. Now it all
>> makes sense.
>>
>> The lists of zones should be here:
>>
>> http://www.gizmodo.jp/2011/03/620.html
>>
>>    Pier
>