EDM-SA Published Load-Shedding Schedule for Bamako
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EDM can't keep Bamako's lights on, so in 2024 it began publishing when they go out: type your quartier, get your outage window. The promised 19 hours reached some neighbourhoods and not others.
what does this mean?
The strongest source is press reporting; no primary evaluation was located. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →Part of 1001 Smart Cities — 1,167 documented projects · 🏙️ 1 more in Bamako · 🔌 Smart grid & energy guide · 📡 Data & IoT projects
After months of unannounced blackouts, EDM-SA - Mali's national electricity utility - began publishing its rotating load-shedding programme for Bamako in March 2024 and put it on edmsa.ml: a resident types a quartier and a date and gets the feeding line plus the hours power is expected to be available, switching over, or off. Studio Tamani reported the plan allotted around 12 hours of supply per Bamako zone; the government's 'Plan unique' of February 2025 then promised 19 hours a day nationally. Neither is kept evenly - in July 2025 Bamada.net found ACI 2000, Hamdallaye ACI and parts of Kalaban Coura on 14 to 17 hours a day while Yirimadio, Banankabougou and Missabougou averaged 4 to 8, and residents quoted since the launch say the published windows are not respected in their street. The lookup was still being served on 7 August 2026 with a populated quartier index, though a test query that day returned no schedule rows for the quartier checked and the host became unreachable shortly after, so the current day's contents could not be confirmed. Publishing an outage adds no megawatts; it only lets a household plan around one - and lets one neighbourhood compare its hours with the next.
📊 Impact
Press observation rather than an evaluation: on 15 July 2025, sixteen months after the schedule went online and five months after the government promised 19 hours of power a day, Bamada.net reported ACI 2000, Hamdallaye ACI and parts of Kalaban Coura receiving 14 to 17 hours while Yirimadio, Banankabougou and Missabougou averaged 4 to 8. Studio Tamani had reported the March 2024 plan as allotting about 12 hours per Bamako zone.
🎓 Lesson
A published outage schedule is the cheapest honesty a failing utility can offer - and the fastest way to make its unfairness legible. Once Bamako residents could look up their quartier, the complaint changed from 'there is no power' to 'the plan is not respected here', which is a harder thing for an operator to answer. Transparency about a shortage is not a fix for it.
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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). “EDM-SA Published Load-Shedding Schedule for Bamako” — Bamako, Mali. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/bamako-edm-load-shedding-schedule/ (last verified 2026-08-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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