India - 370M INDIANS SWELTER IN HEAT AFTER POWER FAILS

[DTR2011]

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Ignoring all of the technical details that will likely be wrong, 370 Million is a lot of people left in the dark.

Has there been a larger event in the world?

 

[cranky108]

I stoped reading when it was talking about the electric engines coming to a stop. There are very few technical details to be seen yet.

We can speculate, but it seems they have a few problems.

 

[jraef]

So what did people in India (or elsewhere) do BEFORE the advent of widespread cheap electricity?

"Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum."
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[oldfieldguy]

What are they doing NOW?

Another massive failure, this time twice as many people without power.

I wouldn't want to be grid administrator or operator in India today.

old field guy

 

[EEJaime]

Wow! Over half a BILLION people without power! Including the capitol city, New Delhi. Can you imagine Washington DC without power? Wait..., that just might actually make it brighter!
Good day,
EEJaime

 

[cranky108]

I heard, but not confirmed, that India had closed most of there coal fired plants, because of some green issue (I don't want to discuss green issues). Can any one confirm this? I won't say which radio commentor said that.

Can this be because of a lack of fuel deversity? Are we headed there?

 

[PHovnanian]

Tech support said to try unplugging it and plugging it back in again.

 

[itsmoked]

Tech support said to try unplugging it and plugging it back in again.

[yellow]Please note I do feel for their horrid situation.[/yellow]


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[LSpark]

I don't know about their diversity of energy sources but power cuts are very common in India so a lot of people have their own backup generation, even small shop owners. So the country probably isn't as shut down as you might imagine.

Energy theft is also a big issue in India not to mention aging infrastructure. I doubt the the US and UK are in as bad a shape as India, I hate to think what would happen if there was a countrywide blackout in the UK, anarchy probably.

 

[Ceast]

Some speculation that India drank the coal plant de-commissioning Koolaid. Only spectulation at this point.

 

[cranky108]

There were comments that some states were taking more than there share of the energy. Is this a way of saying goverment power dosen't work well?
Maybe they need smart grid to reduce energy usage. Or they need more wind generators.

I wonder how states are to reduce, or control there populations energy usage? Some sort of rationing.

 

[cranky108]

Acording to an article from IEEE, the outage was caused because of a lack of rain, which has caused heavy pumping loads.

The Northern grid generation is composed of 28% hydroelectric some of which is not working because of lack of water.

 

[m3ntosan]

REPORT OF THE ENQUIRY COMMITTEE ON GRID DISTURBANCE IN NORTHERN REGION ON 30th July 2012
AND IN NORTHERN, EASTERN & NORTH-EASTERN REGION
ON 31st JULY 2012
16th AUGUST 2012
NEW DELHI

http://www.powermin.nic.in/pdf/GRID_ENQ_REP_16_8_12.pdf

May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true...

 

[DTR2011]

@m3ntosan thank you for the story. Approx 6 weeks for a report. IIRC, it took several years for the August 2003 report to come out for the US.

 

[wayne440]

I wouldn't want to be grid administrator or operator in India today.

I agree. After reading that report, I wonder if there is a good day to have that job.