Jirama Load-Shedding Forecasts and Water Rotation Schedules
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Antananarivo's utility publishes, week by week, when the power will go out. The schedule outlived the government it helped bring down — 12-hour cuts sparked the 2025 protests, and the forecasts kept appearing.
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The strongest source is the operator's or the city's own reporting — an official report, dataset or press release. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →Part of 1001 Smart Cities — 1,167 documented projects · 🏙️ 2 more in Antananarivo · 🔌 Smart grid & energy guide · ⚡ Energy projects
Madagascar's state water-and-power utility Jirama publishes weekly 'prévisions de coupures' for the Antananarivo interconnected grid (Direction RIA) — dated, area-level forecasts of when the electricity will go out, archived on its website continuously from July 2024 through August 2026. In June 2024 the same operator added daily water-rotation plans ('tours d'eau') for nine areas of the capital, publishing which quartiers get water in which overnight window against a production gap it put at about 60,000 m³ a day. The schedules manage scarcity rather than cure it: outages stretching to 12 hours a day beyond any published plan helped ignite the September 2025 Gen Z protests, in which Jirama offices were attacked and the government fell — and the forecasts have kept appearing under the new administration.
🎓 Lesson
A published rationing plan is a data layer, and an honest one: it documents what the utility cannot deliver. In Antananarivo the gap between schedule and reality turned political — the protests that toppled the president began over cuts the calendar could no longer contain.
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When the power is short: four utilities, four things published
None of these adds a megawatt. Each is a data layer laid over a shortage, and what the utility chooses to publish decides what a household can do about it — and what the neighbours can see.
| Project | Since | Status | Outcome | Evidence | Run by | Cost | What the utility publishes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EDM-SA Published Load-Shedding Schedule for BamakoBamako, 🇲🇱 | 2024 | Live | Ongoing | Media | Utility or public operator | not public | When the power will go off, by neighbourhood — which turned the complaint from 'there is no power' into 'the plan is not respected here'. |
| Jirama Load-Shedding Forecasts and Water Rotation SchedulesAntananarivo, 🇲🇬 | 2024 | Live | Ongoing | Official | Utility or public operator | not public | A weekly forecast for power and a nightly rota for water. The gap between the schedule and the street became a political fact rather than a private one. |
| GECOL Prepaid Electricity MetersTripoli, 🇱🇾 | 2022 | Live | Ongoing | Official | Utility or public operator | not public | Who has paid, and nothing about supply — so a household can be cut off twice, for two unrelated reasons. |
| Holding Its Own Customers Below the National Load-Shedding StageCape Town, 🇿🇦 | 2015 | Live | Ongoing | Independent | Utility or public operator | ≈R1.2bn budgeted in 2023 for Steenbras: about R1bn refurbishment and expansion plus about R200m maintenance over nine years | Nothing, and it does not need to: the city dispatches a pumped-storage scheme it already owned and simply sheds less than it was told to. |
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Jirama Load-Shedding Forecasts and Water Rotation Schedules” — Antananarivo, Madagascar. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/antananarivo-jirama-load-shedding/ (last verified 2026-08-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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