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it just for 2 hours for 2 days in some parts, everything is working fine. Every part of Sri Lanka has 24x7 electricity!
Coal power plant is up.
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it just for 2 hours for 2 days in some parts, everything is working fine. Every part of Sri Lanka has 24x7 electricity!
Coal power plant is up.
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Shame on India government!
Is it like the shame chinese govt. faced when chinese capital Beijing was Drown under rainfall, few days back???
1. Its not a load shedding its a technical glitch.
2. Within next 5 years India will add Additional power generation capacity of 100,000 MW
3. India don't want to export its just our traitor PM MMS wants to do everything that can harm India and benefit pakistan.
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Sri Lanka still not power surplus.
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Is it economical for Sri Lanka to do so?
Also is Sri Lanka power surplus nation herself?
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This for both sides, I know there is a project.
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I don't know about it but I will welcome a causeway b/n India & SL (if its technically possible that is)
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And who is doing it. Now the focus is in solving the problem and then 'heads' will roll.
Hundreds of millions without power in India
BBC's Rajini Vaidyanathan: "More than half of India's population has ground to a halt"
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Hundreds of millions of people have been left without electricity in northern and eastern India after a massive power breakdown.
More than half the country was hit by the power cuts after three grids collapsed - one for a second day.
Hundreds of trains have come to a standstill and hospitals are running on backup generators.
The country's power minister has blamed the crisis on states drawing too much power from the national grid.
The breakdowns in the northern, eastern, and north-eastern grids mean around 600m people have been affected in 20 of India's states.
Traffic jams
In a statement on national TV on Tuesday evening, Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said he had appealed to states to stop trying to take more than their quota of power.
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India has one of the lowest per capita rates of consumption of power in the world ... this is nothing compared to say, Canada
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"I have also instructed my officials to penalise the states which overdraw from the grid," he said.
Media reports in India have suggested that Uttar Pradesh is among the states that government officials have been blaming for the grid collapse.
But officials in the state denied this, saying there was "no reason to believe that any power operations in Uttar Pradesh triggered it".
Anil K Gupta, the chairman of the state's power company, called for "further investigation to ascertain the real cause".
Also on Tuesday it was announced that Mr Shinde had been promoted to the post of home minister, in a widely anticipated cabinet reshuffle.
'Complete mess'
By late on Tuesday, officials said the north-eastern grid was fully up and running. The northern grid was running at 75% capacity and the eastern at 40%.
A man has a haircut by candle light in Calcutta, India (31 July 2012) Businesses had to use generators or candles to keep working once it got dark
In Delhi, Metro services were halted and staff evacuated trains. Many traffic lights in the city failed, leading to massive traffic jams.
Much of the country's railway network has started moving again, although a full service is not expected for many hours and there is a huge backlog to clear.
The failure on the northern grid on Monday also caused severe disruption and travel chaos across northern India.
One shopworker in Delhi, Anu Chopra, 21, said: "I can understand this happening once in a while but how can one allow such a thing to happen two days in a row?
"It just shows our infrastructure is in a complete mess. There is no transparency and no accountability whatsoever."
In eastern India, around 200 miners were trapped underground as lifts failed, but officials later said they had all been rescued.
Ageing grid
Addressing a news conference earlier on Tuesday, the chairman of the Power Grid Corporation of India said the exact cause of the power cut was unclear, he said, but that it appeared to be due to the "interconnection of grids".
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This is also the season of no rain when humidity is high, the heat is sweltering and people get taken ill
Narayan Bareth BBC News, Jodphur
BBC reporters: India's power failure
"We have to see why there was a sudden increase in load... we will make sure that such a situation is not repeated," he said.
"Our message to people is that they are in safe hands, we have been in the job for years."
After Monday's cut, engineers managed to restore electricity to the northern grid by the evening, but at 13:05 (07:35 GMT) on Tuesday, it collapsed again.
The eastern grid failed around the same time, officials said, followed by the north-eastern grid.
Areas affected include Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan in the north, and West Bengal, Bihar, Orissa and Jharkhand in the east.
Smriti Mehra, who works at the Bank Of India in Delhi, said it had to turn customers away.
"There is no internet, nothing is working. It is a total breakdown of everything in our office," she told AFP.
Traffic jam in Delhi, India (31 July 2012) The failure of traffic lights has led to huge traffic jams in Delhi
Across West Bengal, power went at 13:00 and all suburban railway trains on the eastern railways ground to a halt from Howrah and Seladah stations, the BBC's Rahul Tandon reports from Calcutta.
However, the city is not badly affected as it is served by a private electricity board, our correspondent adds.
Power cuts are common in Indian cities because of a fundamental shortage of power and an ageing grid - the chaos caused by such cuts has led to protests and unrest on the streets in the past.
But the collapse of an entire grid is rare - the last time the northern grid failed was in 2001.
India's demand for electricity has soared in recent years as its economy has grown but its power infrastructure has been unable to meet the growing needs.
Correspondents say unless there is a huge investment in the power sector, the country will see many more power failures.
BBC News - Hundreds of millions without power in India
BBC's Rajini Vaidyanathan: "More than half of India's population has ground to a halt"
Continue reading the main story
Hundreds of millions of people have been left without electricity in northern and eastern India after a massive power breakdown.
More than half the country was hit by the power cuts after three grids collapsed - one for a second day.
Hundreds of trains have come to a standstill and hospitals are running on backup generators.
The country's power minister has blamed the crisis on states drawing too much power from the national grid.
The breakdowns in the northern, eastern, and north-eastern grids mean around 600m people have been affected in 20 of India's states.
Traffic jams
In a statement on national TV on Tuesday evening, Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said he had appealed to states to stop trying to take more than their quota of power.
Continue reading the main story
Start Quote
India has one of the lowest per capita rates of consumption of power in the world ... this is nothing compared to say, Canada
image of Soutik Biswas Soutik Biswas India correspondent
Read more from Soutik
"I have also instructed my officials to penalise the states which overdraw from the grid," he said.
Media reports in India have suggested that Uttar Pradesh is among the states that government officials have been blaming for the grid collapse.
But officials in the state denied this, saying there was "no reason to believe that any power operations in Uttar Pradesh triggered it".
Anil K Gupta, the chairman of the state's power company, called for "further investigation to ascertain the real cause".
Also on Tuesday it was announced that Mr Shinde had been promoted to the post of home minister, in a widely anticipated cabinet reshuffle.
'Complete mess'
By late on Tuesday, officials said the north-eastern grid was fully up and running. The northern grid was running at 75% capacity and the eastern at 40%.
A man has a haircut by candle light in Calcutta, India (31 July 2012) Businesses had to use generators or candles to keep working once it got dark
In Delhi, Metro services were halted and staff evacuated trains. Many traffic lights in the city failed, leading to massive traffic jams.
Much of the country's railway network has started moving again, although a full service is not expected for many hours and there is a huge backlog to clear.
The failure on the northern grid on Monday also caused severe disruption and travel chaos across northern India.
One shopworker in Delhi, Anu Chopra, 21, said: "I can understand this happening once in a while but how can one allow such a thing to happen two days in a row?
"It just shows our infrastructure is in a complete mess. There is no transparency and no accountability whatsoever."
In eastern India, around 200 miners were trapped underground as lifts failed, but officials later said they had all been rescued.
Ageing grid
Addressing a news conference earlier on Tuesday, the chairman of the Power Grid Corporation of India said the exact cause of the power cut was unclear, he said, but that it appeared to be due to the "interconnection of grids".
Continue reading the main story
Start Quote
This is also the season of no rain when humidity is high, the heat is sweltering and people get taken ill
Narayan Bareth BBC News, Jodphur
BBC reporters: India's power failure
"We have to see why there was a sudden increase in load... we will make sure that such a situation is not repeated," he said.
"Our message to people is that they are in safe hands, we have been in the job for years."
After Monday's cut, engineers managed to restore electricity to the northern grid by the evening, but at 13:05 (07:35 GMT) on Tuesday, it collapsed again.
The eastern grid failed around the same time, officials said, followed by the north-eastern grid.
Areas affected include Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan in the north, and West Bengal, Bihar, Orissa and Jharkhand in the east.
Smriti Mehra, who works at the Bank Of India in Delhi, said it had to turn customers away.
"There is no internet, nothing is working. It is a total breakdown of everything in our office," she told AFP.
Traffic jam in Delhi, India (31 July 2012) The failure of traffic lights has led to huge traffic jams in Delhi
Across West Bengal, power went at 13:00 and all suburban railway trains on the eastern railways ground to a halt from Howrah and Seladah stations, the BBC's Rahul Tandon reports from Calcutta.
However, the city is not badly affected as it is served by a private electricity board, our correspondent adds.
Power cuts are common in Indian cities because of a fundamental shortage of power and an ageing grid - the chaos caused by such cuts has led to protests and unrest on the streets in the past.
But the collapse of an entire grid is rare - the last time the northern grid failed was in 2001.
India's demand for electricity has soared in recent years as its economy has grown but its power infrastructure has been unable to meet the growing needs.
Correspondents say unless there is a huge investment in the power sector, the country will see many more power failures.
BBC News - Hundreds of millions without power in India
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what is the reason?? are there only speculation about SCADA system failure or so called cyber attack or there is some concrete statement from officials.. what i know is that even if central SCADA system fails.. the substations are eqipped to monitor and control locally!!!
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i do know the difference.....but in both cases there is no eletricity and common man suffers..... but as usual you guys will take cheapshots instead of reading the point......
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I'm rather worried about the nuclear power plants. Emergency shutdowns and quickie full-power start-ups are very hard on the turbomachinery. I can just see a turbine-rotor cracking all the way through and then the powerplant will be down for months until a replacement can be fashioned and installed.
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What I have read is that when the four Northern States withdrew extra 4000 MW from the grid the frequency went down.The grid uses automatic relays to cut off supply in case of frequency increase and decrease;so when frequency dropped major portion's of the northern grid were switched off automatically.Thus increasing the frequency in eastern grid (as load reduced) as they are all interconnected.
The isolation mechanism also failed on the eastern grid (it worked on 30th but failed on 31st) while the western grid was isolated automatically.
But the official investigation is still going on.
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