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发帖数: 4936 | 1 http://www.boston.com/business/news/2012/07/31/power-grids-acro
NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s energy crisis cascaded over half the country
Tuesday when three of its regional grids collapsed, leaving 620 million
people without government-supplied electricity for several hours in, by far,
the world’s biggest blackout.
Hundreds of trains stalled across the country and traffic lights went out,
causing widespread traffic jams in New Delhi. Electric crematoria stopped
operating, some with bodies half burnt, power officials said. Emergency
workers rushed generators to coal mines to rescue miners trapped underground.
The massive failure—a day after a similar, but smaller power failure—has
raised serious concerns about India’s outdated infrastructure and the
government’s inability to meet its huge appetite for energy as the country
aspires to become a regional economic superpower.
Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde blamed the new crisis on states taking
more than their allotted share of electricity.
‘‘Everyone overdraws from the grid. Just this morning I held a meeting
with power officials from the states and I gave directions that states that
overdraw should be punished. We have given instructions that their power
supply could be cut,’’ he told reporters.
The new power failure affected 620 million people across 20 of India’s 28
states—about double the population of the United States. The blackout was
unusual in its reach, stretching from the border with Myanmar in the
northeast to the Pakistani border about 3,000 kilometers (1,870 miles) away.
Its impact, however, was softened by Indians’ familiarity with frequent
blackouts and the widespread use of backup generators for major businesses
and key facilities such as hospitals and airports.
Shinde later said power was fully restored in the northeast grid four hours
after it went down, and that the north grid had 45 percent power and the
east grid 35 percent. R.N. Nayak, chairman of Power Grid Corp., which runs
the nation’s power system, said he expected to have full power later in the
evening.
Oddly, as the crisis dragged into the evening, Shinde was promoted, becoming
India’s home minister, its top internal security official. The promotion
had been planned previously as part of a greater Cabinet shuffle before he
presided over the world’s two worst power outages.
The outages came just a day after India’s northern power grid collapsed for
several hours. Indian officials managed to restore power several hours
later, but at 1:05 p.m. Tuesday the northern grid collapsed again, said
Shailendre Dubey, an official at the Uttar Pradesh Power Corp. in India’s
largest state. About the same time, the eastern grid failed and then the
northeastern grid followed, energy officials in those regions said. The
grids serve more than half India’s population.
In West Bengal, express trains and local electric trains were stopped at
stations across the state of West Bengal on the eastern grid. Crowds of
people thronged the stations, waiting for any transport to take them to
their destinations.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said it would take at least 10 to 12 hours to
restore power and asked office workers to go home.
‘‘The situation is very grave. We are doing everything to restore power,’
’ West Bengal Power Minister Manish Gupta said.
New Delhi’s Metro rail system, which serves about 1.8 million people a day,
immediately shut down for the second day in a row. Police said they managed
to evacuate Delhi’s busy Rajiv Chowk station in under half an hour before
closing the shutters.
S.K. Jain, 54, said he was on his way to file his income tax return when the
Metro closed and now would almost certainly miss the deadline. Hours later,
the government announced it was giving taxpayers an extra month to file
because of the chaos.
Tuesday’s blackout eclipsed Monday’s in India, which covered territory
including 370 million people. The third largest blackout affected 100
million people in Indonesia in 2005, according to reports by The Associated
Press.
India’s demand for electricity has soared along with its economy in recent
years, but utilities have been unable to meet the growing needs. India’s
Central Electricity Authority reported power deficits of more than 8 percent
in recent months.
In addition, vast amounts of power are pirated through unauthorized wiring
that taps into the electrical system.
The power deficit was worsened by a weak monsoon that lowered hydroelectric
generation and kept temperatures higher, further increasing electricity
usage as people seek to cool off.
But any connection to the grid remains a luxury for many. One-third of India
’s households do not even have electricity to power a light bulb, according
to last year’s census.
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Associated Press writer Nasr ul Hadi contributed to this report from New
Delhi and Prasanta Pal contributed from Kolkata. | g***j
发帖数: 40861 | | xt
发帖数: 17532 | 3 应该是昨日的减排试点工作成绩显著，现在正在推广。 | m**********n
发帖数: 27535 | | s*****r
发帖数: 11545 | 5 体制问题，这样举国体制办grids， 当然不行。如果不把办grids的权力下放到民间，
民主就是挂羊头卖狗肉。民间办grids，一切问题迎刃而解。
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underground.
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: http://www.boston.com/business/news/2012/07/31/power-grids-acro
: NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s energy crisis cascaded over half the country
: Tuesday when three of its regional grids collapsed, leaving 620 million
: people without government-supplied electricity for several hours in, by far,
: the world’s biggest blackout.
: Hundreds of trains stalled across the country and traffic lights went out,
: causing widespread traffic jams in New Delhi. Electric crematoria stopped
: operating, some with bodies half burnt, power officials said. Emergency
: workers rushed generators to coal mines to rescue miners trapped underground.
: The massive failure—a day after a similar, but smaller power failure—has
| h***y
发帖数: 4936 | 6 断电范围这么大，真是罕见，地铁和铁路都停了，更别说工厂煤矿啥的。
报道说古吉拉特邦电力供应这两天一直很稳定，印度的广东很不错啊。 |
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