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Wednesday, August 1, 2012

IEESpectrum Update Disappointing Monsoon Season Wreaks Havoc Witth India's Grid


On 30 July, the worst blackout in a decade left an estimated 400 million people in northern India (about one-third of the nation’s population) without power. At 2:35 a.m. local time, the country’s northern grid failed catastrophically. By 7 p.m. that evening, roughly 80 percent of the more than 8000 megawatts of electrical capacity that had been unavailable was restored, leading power officials to predict that service on the northern grid would soon return to normal. But the energy crisis actually got worse on Tuesday: The northern, eastern, and northeastern grids failed just after 1 p.m. local time, leaving 600 million people without power.  http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/the-smarter-grid/disappointing-monsoon-season-wreaks-havoc-with-indias-grid/?utm_source=energywise&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=080112 

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