This morning a little article in the Dutch news got me smiling. Me smiling was the fact that we actually do provide and publish the numbers for 'uptime' of energy and gas at hour homes and offices. In the Netherlands I would think we have such a good and guaranteed supply (with some super small glitches every year), that we would not publish these numbers anymore.
No idea if you readers have such numbers at hand for your own countries. When so, would be interesting to share :)
- Energy 2016
- average of 21 minutes outage for homes and offices
- 17% below average over the past 5 years
- 99,996% availability
- Gas 2016
- average of 58 second outage for homes and offices
- 40% below average over the past 5 years
- 99,9998% availability
FYI: the country that I experienced the most energy outages must by Nigeria. Having travelled to Lagos Nigeria many times in the last 10+ years, I've experienced at least 2 to 4 power cuts a day. Even with local generators, I've managed business meetings with laptop and smartphone lights many times :)
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To take those metrics is not easy. In the Netherlands there is a grid, like in Italy and other countries, so that you can monitor : in Italy the data are transported using TCAP over the copper cables, directly to the power grid controller. In the Netherlands data are collected in different ways, I was working time ago on a project of putting a simcard into the home counters, to collect the power consumed and the amount of gas being consumed.
Is not easy to have such a data without a grid controller.
I can imagine it is not easy to get to these type of metrics.
We are in the replacement process of the energy meters, installing so called intelligent meters, but this whole project just started and will take maybe even years before all meters are replaced. That tells me, more traditional methods are used to come to the figures as presented. I can imagine these figures are derived by the infrastructure outage support information; We can get more or less realtime information on power outage on zip-code level from them.
I confirm
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