Momentan ist Funkstille mit Ghana. Es herrscht Dumsor, ghanaisches Wort für Stromausfall. Es hat die letzten Tage viel geregnet und zwischen Takoradi und der Grenze zur Elfenbeinküste gibt es keinen Strom und das seit drei Tagen. Sporadisch kommt eine kurze Nachricht von Patrick, er hat eine Gelegenheit gefunden, das Handy kurz aufzuladen.
Das ist mit ein Grund, dass wir später alles mit Solarenegie betreiben wollen.
Als ich das erste Mal 2015 in Ghana war, gehörte das zur Normalität. Zwölf Stunden Strom, dann wieder zwöf Stunden keinen, usw. Wenn man da von einem Bezirk ohne Strom in die nächsten zwölf Stunden ohne Strom gereist ist, gab es dann schon kleinere Probleme, vor allem beim Handy und Kamera laden… Seitdem fahre ich nur noch mit dicken Powerbanks nach Ghana.
Kurz und gut, Neuigkeiten über den Baufortschritt gibt es, wenn der Strom wieder da ist.
In Wikipedia steht:
Dumsor
In Ghana, dumsor (Akan pronunciation: [dum sɔ] ‚off and on‘) is a persistent, irregular, and unpredictable electric power outage.[1] The frequent Ghanaian blackouts are caused by power supply shortage. Ghanaian generating capacity by 2015 was 400-600 megawatts, less than what Ghana needed.[2] Ghanaian electricity distributors regularly shed load with rolling blackouts.[3]
At the beginning of 2015, the dumsor schedule went from 24 hours with light and 12 without to 12 hours with light and 24 without.[1][4] The long blackouts contrast with the practice in other countries, where blackouts roll rapidly so that no residential area is without power for more than one hour at a time.[5][6]
The re-introduction of dumsor in 2019 without publishing the requisite load shedding schedule came along with the term dumsaa[7] meaning off for a considerably long time or off all the time[7]
Terminology
The term is derived from two separate words from the Asante Twi, the Akuapem Twi or Fante dialects of the Akan language, dum (‚to turn off or quench‘) and sɔ (‚to turn on or to kindle‘), and so the term roughly translates as „off-and-on“.[1] The term has also recently evolved into dum dum: sɔ no mma (‚off and off‘) because of the increase in the intensity of the power outages.[8]
In 2018, a new term was coined by the energy minister who referred to the dumsor as dum koraa, as compared to the intermittent power outages now dum so, as the country faces outages.[9]
By early 2019, Ghanaians began to experience another wave of a controversial dumsor or load shedding, whose schedule was not published, despite the norm.[10] Ghana’s Parliament was even divided on how to call it. This thus ushered in the term dumsaa:[7] supposedly, a superlative form of dumsor.
While officials of Ghana’s energy sector regulators claimed that dumsaa, the new wave of dumsor, was due to transmission failures,[11] sector analysts believed dumsaa was a matter of gross corporate liquidity[12] mismanagement.
History
Ghana’s power supply became erratic in early 2001. There was reduced generation capacity, due to a significant drop in water levels at the Akosombo Dam (Ghana’s main hydro-electric dam). Water levels rose and the power crisis was temporarily resolved in late 2008.
In August 2012, the government told Ghanaians that a ship’s anchor cut the West African Gas Pipeline (WAGP), forcing gas turbines to shut down for lack of fuel.[3][13][14] Since 2012, load shedding has become a regular experience, and the country has plunged into a major power crisis.
Social and economic effects
Many Ghanaian companies were collapsing due to the irregularity of the power supply. The Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), in a report, stated that Ghana lost about 1 billion dollars in 2014 alone because of dumsor.[15] A woman in labour at the Bawku Presby Hospital who gave birth and was on oxygen lost both her life and that of the unborn baby after power supply went off in February 2016.[16]
Electronic equipment has been avoidably damaged, and refrigerated food regularly spoiled.[3] Contrary to the published load shedding schedule, blackouts concentrated on poorer neighbourhoods of Accra.[17] Health and safety was also harmed, with hospitals having no light, and electricity to run fans, contributed to an increasing malaria risk.[1]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumsor
