Indian Grid Collapses Again, Lack of Rain a Leading Cause: A disappointing monsoon season leads to agriculture o...

Disappointing Monsoon Season Wreaks Havoc with India's Grid

Indian Grid Collapses Again, Lack of Rain a Leading Cause: A disappointing monsoon season leads to agriculture o...

On Tuesday, India was hit with its second large blackout in two days. When the northern grid went dark Monday at around 2:30 am local time, more than 300 million people were left without electricity for several hours. The Power Systems Operation Corp. reported that New Delhi was completely restored by 1:00 pm, as well as 70 percent of the rest of the region. But the problems weren't over. "The northern grid has failed again," Arvinder Singh Bakshi, the chairman of the Central Electricity Authority, told Reuters this afternoon . Today's outage affected nearly 600 million people, according to estimates . India's power system is composed of five regional grids. In 2007, all but one of the regional grids were synchronized so that power-rich regions could transfer power to areas that needed it . Yesterday, the eastern and northeastern grids provided power to restore the norther...

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