The cost of blackouts
Blackouts cost money, food and work
The outage hours below are recorded facts. The money figures are estimates built from openly listed assumptions — they are clearly marked as estimates, never presented as measurements.
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Cost per outage hour (per 1,000 households)
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Estimated total cost
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Move the slider to see how the estimate scales. We do not know exactly how many households each outage touched, so this is your assumption, not our measurement.
Open assumptions
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What blackouts actually break
- Generator fuel bought by shops, clinics and families.
- Food and medicine spoiled in fridges and freezers.
- Fridges, freezers, pumps and TVs damaged by surges.
- Trading hours lost by tailors, welders, barbers and salons.
- Water pumps stopped, so taps run dry.
- Children studying without light and phones without charge.