India in the Dark: Photos of the Largest Blackout in History

India in the Dark: Photos of the Largest Blackout in History

by Max Fisher

Sweeping outages in India have left approximately 670 million people there without power. There are more Indians who have no lights, air conditioning, or refrigeration (save those powered by private generators); whose streets have no traffic lights, subways, or street lamps; than there are people living in all the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Japan put together. It appears to be the single largest power outage in the modern history of electricity. The second largest was yesterday's outage in northern India, which has since spread. The third largest left 100 million Indonesian without power in 2005. For comparison, the largest blackout in American history, in 2003, effected 45 million people. Indian officials say they have still not deduced the source of the problem.

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What Blackout Says About India's Frailties

by Einhorn & Mehrotra, Bloomberg

Einhorn & Mehrotra, Bloomberg
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