Power failure in Northern India due to Grid Fault

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From Ambhik to Jaichand and Mir Jaffar, then leaders of UPA to Suresh Kalmadi this nation has suffered humiliation from her own countrymen more than any outsider could have.

Last year I was invited by my friend to his million dollar house with family. I stayed there for one day and next day at lunch he asked me what is your definition of a developed nation now after staying in my beautiful house situated in a beautiful locality. I smiled, and said 'Where bathroom showers are so fast without roof mounted water tanks that one can get rid of hair shampoo in few seconds'. I mean we have to provide basic needs with adequate uninterrupted supplies to every household before doing anything else.

But then we have to elect short sighted, some times blind, clueless distended belly leaders who decide quota of every necessity to be released for us, themselves having access to every thing and for them we are just votes which they can easily outsource from Bangladesh or numbers they can gamble every election.
 

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H&R even NDA is their they cannot stop grid failur, what we need is power plant, now a days every one get 18-20k AC, which consume power, for that you need power plants to supply electricity.
Wonder what will happen in hospital.
 

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H&R even NDA is their they cannot stop grid failur, what we need is power plant, now a days every one get 18-20k AC, which consume power, for that you need power plants to supply electricity.
Wonder what will happen in hospital.
Saya Saar.

I have said ''Har shakh pe Ullu beitha hai'', NDA or UPA all are same.

A policy maker should have thought about the consumption way before. All develop nation plan this, they know what people are eating and farting.

It s not a big deal to do in any country. But we believe in dictating what people should do and don't, this where we are deceived by them.

Because we have lazy and corrupt work force form top to ankles who do not have control on things, can refuse us the supplies when ever they are caught by exceptions. In Jammu city no one pay electricity bill more than one thousand per month, irrespective of how much AC they burn .

Before demanding or expecting big words like democracy, secularism, blah blah from our leadership; they have kept us preoccupied in the matrix of these for long, this nation needs to wake up and start demanding electricity, water and transportation first and these should be made available to us through well thought of, foolproof mechanism.

We can survive and contribute to this nation's progress in heaps without big malls/buildings, 6 lane roads, if have patience to adjust and respect but we must have a very simple house to be safe, cook, rest and be ready in time for the job or school and reach there in time by road or rail.

All big things things will fell in line/order, will come to us without doing much once we be able to use or consume basic utilities like Gas, Electricity and better transportation; which will uplift our living standards, including education and enlightenment. We can always add few more things which we be able to enjoy along with it like add ons of telecommunication, Internet etc. thereafter.
 

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We can survive and contribute to this nation's progress in heaps without big malls/buildings, 6 lane roads, if have patience to adjust and respect but we must have a very simple house to be safe, cook, rest and be ready in time for the job or school and reach there in time by road or rail.
Reminds me of a good example. After the Tsunami and plant disasters, entire Japan went into austerity mode specially with regards to power.
Places like Restaurants and Shopping stores were all consuming only the obsolutely neccessary power in terms of lighting etc.
No wonder Japs come back after every blow given to them.

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Virendra
 

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This is a FIRECELL
 
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with Millions of civil and electrical engineers how does this happen? Unless this is a political stunt
which would be no suprise.
 

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The culprit = UP

UP which was supposed to withdraw only 6.5k MW drew nearly 10K MW causing the tripping.
 

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Eastern grid supplied power to the North and then it went kaput also!

Half the country was without power!
 

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Whatever you people say but now this crisis can be fixed by Only RAHUL GANDHI. Because according to congress,he has that "Current" which can overcome any powerfailure....:rofl:
 
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The culprit = UP

UP which was supposed to withdraw only 6.5k MW drew nearly 10K MW causing the tripping.
And even with 10kW major areas of UP were having 5-6 hr power cuts daily. Well, maybe not Itawa.
 

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Second India blackout in two days cuts power to 670 million | Reuters
(Reuters) - Grids supplying electricity to half of India's 1.2 billion people collapsed on Tuesday, trapping coal miners, stranding train travelers and plunging hospitals into darkness in the second major blackout in as many days.

Stretching from Assam, near China, to the Himalayas and the northwestern deserts of Rajasthan, the outage was the worst to hit India in more than a decade and embarrassed the government, which has failed to build up enough power capacity to meet soaring demand.

"Even before we could figure out the reason for yesterday's failure, we had more grid failures today," said R. N. Nayak, chairman of the state-run Power Grid Corporation.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has vowed to fast-track stalled power and infrastructure projects as well as introduce free market reforms aimed at reviving India's flagging economy. But he has drawn fire for dragging his feet.

By the afternoon rush-hour, only about 40 percent of power was back up. Electricity had not been restored to all of the sweltering capital, New Delhi, and streets were clogged with commuters trying to get home.

"It's certainly shameful. Power is a very basic amenity and situations like these should not occur," said Unnayan Amitabh, 19, an intern with HSBC bank in New Delhi, as he was giving up on the underground train system and flagging down an auto-rickshaw to get home.

"They talk about big ticket reforms but can't get something as essential as power supply right."

Power Minister Sushilkumar Shinde blamed the system collapse on some states drawing more than their share of electricity from the over-burdened grid.

Asia's third-largest economy suffers a peak-hour power deficit of about 10 percent, dragging on economic growth.

"This is the second day that something like this has happened. I've given instructions that whoever overdraws power will be punished," said Shinde, hours before he was promoted to interior minister in a cabinet reshuffle.

More than a dozen states with a population of 670 million people were without power.

Two hundred miners were stranded in three deep coal shafts in the state of West Bengal when their electric elevators stopped working. Eastern Coalfields Limited official Niladri Roy said workers at the mines, one of which is 700 meters (3,000 feet) deep, were not in danger and were being taken out.

Train stations in Kolkata were swamped and traffic jammed the streets after government offices closed early in the dilapidated coastal city of 5 million people.

The power failed in some major city hospitals and office buildings had to fire up diesel generators.

By mid-evening, services had been restored on the New Delhi metro system.

"PUSHED INTO DARKNESS"

On Monday, India was forced to buy extra power from the tiny neighboring kingdom of Bhutan to help it recover from a blackout that hit more than 300,000 million people.

Indians took to social networking sites to ridicule the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, in part for promoting Shinde despite the power cuts.

Narendra Modi, an opposition leader and chief minister in Gujarat, a state that enjoys a surplus of power, was scornful.

"With poor economic management UPA has emptied pockets of common man; kept stomachs hungry with inflation & today pushed them into darkness!," he said on his Twitter account.

The country's southern and western grids were supplying power to help restore services, officials said.

The problem has been made worse by a weak monsoon in agricultural states such as wheat-belt Punjab and Uttar Pradesh in the Ganges plain, which has a larger population than Brazil.

With less rain to irrigate crops, more farmers resort to electric pumps to draw water from wells.

India's electricity distribution and transmission is mostly state run, with private companies operating in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata. Less than a quarter of generation is private nationwide.

More than half the country's electricity is generated by coal, with hydro power and nuclear also contributing.

Power shortages and a creaky road and rail network have weighed heavily on the country's efforts to industrialize. Grappling with the slowest economic growth in nine years, the government recently scaled back a target to pump $1 trillion into infrastructure over the next five years.

Major industries have their own power plants or diesel generators and are shielded from outages. But the inconsistent supply hits investment and disrupts small businesses.

High consumption of heavily subsidized diesel by farmers and businesses has fuelled a gaping fiscal deficit that the government has vowed to tackle to restore confidence in the economy.

But the poor monsoon means a subsidy cut is politically difficult.

On Tuesday, the central bank cut its economic growth outlook for the fiscal year that ends in March to 6.5 percent, from the 7.3 percent assumption made in April, putting its outlook closer to that of many private economists.

"This is going to have a substantial adverse impact on the overall economic activity. Power failure for two consecutive days hits sentiment very badly," said N. Bhanumurthy, a senior economist at National Institute of Public Finance and Policy.
 

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While overdraw might be a truth, it seems an illogical explanation for grid failure on two consecutive days straight, especially since on the second day , it wasn't just the Northern Grid that failed.

The overdraw theory seems just a cover up for some other snag that affects the power infrastructure of the country
 

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The culprit = UP

UP which was supposed to withdraw only 6.5k MW drew nearly 10K MW causing the tripping.
Its easy to point fingers at UP . . . do u have any thing to back your claim that it was Up's overdraw alone that triggered this collapse . . .
Surely UP cant be responsible for Eastern and and North Eastern Grid Failure . .

the Overdraw has been going on forever . . . and all states have their fingers in the pie . . .

FYI on Tuesday UP was overdrawing just 6.7% of its allocated share as opposed to Haryana's 22.4 %


Reference:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Power-grid-failure-States-start-blame-game/articleshow/15300776.cms

The overdraw theory seems just a cover up for the years of neglect that power infrastructure of the country has been suffering .
 
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Whatever you people say but now this crisis can be fixed by Only RAHUL GANDHI. Because according to congress,he has that "Current" which can overcome any powerfailure....:rofl:
Let me rephrase what you said: "This crisis can be fixed only by NARENDRA MODI." :troll:

On a serious note, I am glad things have returned to normalcy.
 

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