600 Million Without Power In India - Could you imagine everyone in North America without power?

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more at --- http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/01/world/asia/power-outages-hit-600-million-in-india.html



NEW DELHI — About 600 million people lost power in India on Tuesday when the country’s northern and eastern electricity grids failed, crippling the country for a second consecutive day.
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The outage stopped hundreds of trains in their tracks, darkened traffic lights, shuttered the Delhi Metro and left nearly everyone — the police, water utilities, private businesses and citizens — without electricity. About half of India’s population of 1.2 billion people was without power.

India, however, has an unofficial power grid in the form of huge numbers of backup diesel generators and other private power sources. That kept electricity flowing in everything from private residences and small and large businesses to hospitals and major airports.

Manoranjan Kumar, an economic adviser with the Ministry of Power, said in a telephone interview that the grids had failed and that the ministry was working to figure out the source of the problem. The northern and eastern grids cover 11 states and the capital city of Delhi, stretching from India’s northern tip in Kashmir to Rajasthan to West Bengal’s capital of Kolkata.


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just mind-boggling. someone wondered if the thousands of corporate manufacturing and tech/call centers have aided in bringing this about by placing heavy stress on an already stressed electricity grid? who knows, but obviously, their grid is outdated, and it's a wonder this hasn't happened numerous times before. China and India have nearly 3 Billion people in them, that's just unreal....



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