Record blackout leaves over 600 million without electricity in India

[claud3]

More than ten percent of the world’s population has found itself without electricity, after three of India’s power grids failed. Blackouts have now plagued India for two consecutive days, leaving half the country without power.

The string of power shortages began on Monday, when India's northern and eastern power grids collapsed for several hours. Electricians restored the grids after a few hours, but the region’s electric infrastructure was still overloaded. On Tuesday the northern and eastern grids went offline again, followed by the northeastern grid –leaving half of the country's 1.2 billion people without power.

The Powergrid Corporation of India announced that it was working to put the country's grids back into operation, and by approximately 8 pm New Delhi time, managed to restore power the northeast of the country as well the most affluent areas of Delhi.

The failure is the worst in a decade, with outages reported as far to the east as the Assam state on the Chinese border, to the Himalayas in the north, and to the western deserts of Rajasthan that border Pakistan.

The additional load on India’s electric network was reportedly caused by a low-intensity monsoon that lowered hydroelectric generation, creating a power deficit. The monsoon also kept temperatures higher than usual, increasing the country’s use of air conditioners.

http://www.rt.com/news/electricity-c...ons-india-471/

Well its just shows more people equals more power

[F34R]

Damnit!! I meant to ship candles for sale last week, and forgot. /depressed

[claud3]

Well that might have worked. But their is a lot of trees in that part of the world, so all could be saved

[F34R]

Well that might have worked. But their is a lot of trees in that part of the world, so all could be saved

If they cut down all the trees in that place to make candles for me to make money, I'm ok with that. All that works and I keep my trees in my yard.

[claud3]

Candel in the darkness, but its the end of the world mate save the lemons

[gangsta_795]

Haha yeah I was affected by this.

[claud3]

Nice in a funny way mate. I wonder how 700 million people handled this craziness

[Blacksite]

I've read about this on BBC the other day. A couple hundred miners were trapped underground when this happened.

[gangsta_795]

Nice in a funny way mate. I wonder how 700 million people handled this craziness

Yup all trains/metros cancelled/postponed. It was complete panic.

[claud3]

It just shows that the world is to small. So kill a the little spiders, slugs, snails and the ants, so we can free up extra space.