Times of India: Northern Grid trips again, Delhi in dark as winter demand rises

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More problems with india's power grid.

Northern Grid trips again, city in dark as winter demand rises

NEW DELHI: The northern grid collapsed again on Saturday evening at around 6.30 pm and blacked out half the city. The disturbance in the grid tripped Badarpur, Rajghat and the Indraprastha power plants, causing power production to fall by 1,400 MW. The northern grid had collapsed on Thursday, tripping all the power stations in Delhi. The grid problems were so severe that the entire city went without power for around half-an-hour. Even the VIP areas did not have electricity for a short while. Most parts of the city went without power for the entire day, while almost all areas had power problems for hours on end.

Link to complete story:

http://www.timesofindia.com/today/09mdel4.htm

Remember this is the same city in which 10 people died apparently as a result of a power surge:

Link to 10 dead: New Delhi Fire thread Link

http://hv.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=002CyE

Also link to previous power out story thread:

New Delhi power out entire city

http://hv.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=002FU9

-- Carl Jenkins (Somewherepress@aol.com), January 09, 2000

Answers

But as we already know that this is caused by a lack of generation in the north, and a lack of transmission capacity from other areas, What has this got to do with Y2K?

-- Malcolm Taylor (taylorm@es.co.nz), January 09, 2000.

Wow.

-- Hokie (Hokie_@hotmail.com), January 09, 2000.

I used to have a job shipping aircraft parts all over the world and one of my customers was a gentleman from India. He was based in New Delhi. I asked him why I could hardly ever get through to him on the fax and he told me that their phones were down several times a week and also power would go down almost as much. It made it very hard for him to do business. It was a normal occurance in India and this was several years ago.

-- Lornna Mitchell (doone@digital.net), January 09, 2000.

--yes, Lornna, but instead of fixing their infrastructure problems, they build nukes and missiles, and buy submarines and destroyers and jet fighters. Same with china, pakistan, and russia, among others. Sorry,pathetic and dangerous countries, with sorrier leadership, my opinion. Not the average folks there, the biz leaders and gubbmint. Quite large countries, but instead of living in peace, always upping the war ante. Pitiful and dangerous. Meglomania knows no international boundaries, does it?

zoggus

-- zog (zzoggy@yahoo.com), January 09, 2000.


Geez, Carl, I thought you had finally realized this India power stuff was a waste of time after I posted my vast quantities of 1997-1998 material describing farmers committing suicide because constant power surges destroyed their pumps, much of Delhi only getting 8 hours of power a day, etc.

Guess not.

-- John H Krempasky (johnk@dmv.com), January 09, 2000.



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