India - 370,000,000 out of power in India

Spectacular electric grid failure in India right now. Heads up!

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-07-30/india-power-outage/56584766/1?csp=24&kjnd=IyCUydfq0YPGWJycO1p7JPhbNzH7dN9%2BqHu%2FsoWva fca6rtuGEsBKqt%2BqIEHlrAn-ba8c6ae9-b85c-48a4-ae4f-354177e60639_NCiJD%2Fa1qPsl5x1bhTb0qHuRPKLZd8bZi0b 6RFYtCUfrC5LtCOO%2BU1hNGIM31ZA6

We suffered without power for 4 days (ended on 7/4). Still shopping for the perfect backup power solution.

Spectacular electric grid failure in India right now. Heads up!

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-07-30/india-power-outage/56584766/1?csp=24&kjnd=IyCUydfq0YPGWJycO1p7JPhbNzH7dN9%2BqHu%2FsoWva fca6rtuGEsBKqt%2BqIEHlrAn-ba8c6ae9-b85c-48a4-ae4f-354177e60639_NCiJD%2Fa1qPsl5x1bhTb0qHuRPKLZd8bZi0b 6RFYtCUfrC5LtCOO%2BU1hNGIM31ZA6

Not bad. Only 29.8% of the population is without power. Not counting the people who never had power.

And today it's 600 million people without power...three grids collapse.

Good Lord. Maybe this is the one thing that will actually get the GoI (at all levels) off their @sses to finally do something concrete about the coal/power fiasco in the country.

We suffered without power for 4 days (ended on 7/4). Still shopping for the perfect backup power solution.

no power for almost 2 days now....thank god for my big a$$ generator....

And today it's 600 million people without power...three grids collapse.

Good Lord. Maybe this is the one thing that will actually get the GoI (at all levels) off their @sses to finally do something concrete about the coal/power fiasco in the country.

They need access to half a trillion US dollars to do the job right for the entire nation's electricity system. It is not going to happen. There will merely be some portfolio adjustments at the cabinet and cabinet-appointee level and some bluster about the need to fix things. Everyone wants a finger in that cookie jar so it won't get fixed as fast as it could and should even if the country came up with the money for such a massive infrastructure investment project.

They need access to half a trillion US dollars to do the job right for the entire nation's electricity system. It is not going to happen. There will merely be some portfolio adjustments at the cabinet and cabinet-appointee level and some bluster about the need to fix things. Everyone wants a finger in that cookie jar so it won't get fixed as fast as it could and should even if the country came up with the money for such a massive infrastructure investment project.
I wouldn't ever expect them to do the job right :D but there are how many dozen power plants already built in India, but sitting idle for lack of coal--a commodity for which India's resource is one of the world's largest? There are also plenty of gas-fired plants with no gas supply, and plenty of power being given away for free/ridiculously cheap (i.e. creating no incentive to use it intelligently). I am not saying that there is a magic bullet that would solve India's power shortage overnight, but there are a hell of a lot of available levers to pull that would do a lot to improve things in a 1-3 year time frame.

Sometimes I really want to just walk around the ministries over there and knock people's heads together.

no power for almost 2 days now....thank god for my big a$$ generator....

Gasoline, diesel, propane, other?

10000kwH?

Gasoline, diesel, propane, other?

10000kwH?

diesel....15 kva....

diesel....15 kva....

Too big and smelly for our needs. Glad the juice is flowing for you tho.

Too big and smelly for our needs. Glad the juice is flowing for you tho.

big, yes....smelly, surprisingly no....

i have made a little shed in my backyard for the generator so we can't really hear it inside the house....

News media are reporting that power has now been restored.

big, yes....smelly, surprisingly no....

i have made a little shed in my backyard for the generator so we can't really hear it inside the house....

Living in Lodi Estate, our electricity -- and more importantly water -- was almost never disrupted for more than a few minutes in the past two decades; so no generator was wired up. Not sure what happened in the area this time or if that will change, but I always realized how the situation of that disparity was not going to push the state to resolve the shortages as aggressively as would be done for select areas of Delhi if also hit as badly.

Living in Lodi Estate, our electricity -- and more importantly water -- was almost never disrupted for more than a few minutes in the past two decades; so no generator was wired up. Not sure what happened in the area this time or if that will change, but I always realized how the situation of that disparity was not going to push the state to resolve the shortages as aggressively as would be done for select areas of Delhi if also hit as badly.

i agree....i moved out of lodhi estate about 4 years ago....but in the 10+ years i was there i don't remember any power disruption for more than a few minutes....

Since most parts of the country are affected by intermittent power cuts everyone, residential or industrial, has a backup in place. All friends I have in and around CCU managed that way. Surely parts of DEL and areas of BOM are spoiled by good power supply in the past decades :p

Since most parts of the country are affected by intermittent power cuts everyone, residential or industrial, has a backup in place. All friends I have in and around CCU managed that way. Surely parts of DEL and areas of BOM are spoiled by good power supply in the past decades :p

The backup -- in the main (pun caught :D ) -- being candles, flashlights, kerosene lamps and/or stoves using gas cylinders or going out into the street or to some sort of place of work/business.

Generators and "inverters" are still not part of the picture for the homes of most people in the country.

Parts of DEL have certainly been spoiled. :D

Yep, and having a water tank in the bathroom/kitchen, not being completely reliant on refrigeration, having non electronic entertainment options like a book or a newspaper etc etc. :D

Yep, and having a water tank in the bathroom/kitchen, not being completely reliant on refrigeration, having non electronic entertainment options like a book or a newspaper etc etc. :D

Sounds like a campground in parts of Europe. :D

... back to camping. :D