I visited Dharamsala in Himachal Pradesh about ten years ago. Every night from 7 to 8pm the power was TURNED OFF. [can you imagine doing that in the US?]

If you were in a restaurant, candles were lit everywhere. The high end hotels had their own generators.

Sounds like they still haven't solved that problem......

670 Million People In India Without Power As Electric Grid Fails

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/670-millio....

Quote:

Two weeks ago we touched upon the possibility that the US climatic deep fried black swan could soon stretch to India where the Monsoon season was 22% below normal conditions for this time of year. Today India is the locus of another flightless bird sighting following an epic powergrid meltdown which left half of its 1.2 billion people without power on Tuesday "as the grids covering a dozen states broke down, the second major blackout in as many days and an embarrassment for the government as it struggles to revive economic growth... More than a dozen states with a total population of 670 million people were without power, with the lights out even at major hospitals in Kolkata." Indicatively this is the same as every man, woman and child in America having no electricity. Twice over."Stretching from Assam, near China, to the Himalayas and the deserts of Rajasthan, the power cut was the worst to hit India in more than a decade. Trains were stranded in Kolkata and Delhi and thousands of people poured out of the sweltering capital's modern metro system when it ground to a halt at lunchtime. Office buildings switched to diesel generators and traffic jammed the roads." Hopefully, two events in a row don't confirm a trend. Although if indeed systemic, and if suddenly the Indian power infrastructure is unable to handle the local drought-related conditions, thus serving as a natural cap on economic expansion, all bets may be off as to the unlimited upside potential capacity of the BRICs.

This is really astonishing. Do you mean to tell me that the entire country's power grid is interconnected? Isn't that a bad idea? People in this country would freak if the entire population was w/o power.

I wonder why they're having issues...

I guess some regulation makes sense ;)

Holy crap!

670 Million People without power.

This would be equivalent to nearly the ENTIRETY of the Populations and Industries in ALL of the US, Canada, and Mexico being DARK & WITHOUT POWER sans Private/Proprietary local back-ups.

Ponder THAT a moment.

A few weeks of that will absolutely trash India's Tech and Industrial Output...

NEXT: HOW MANY BACK OFFICES OF MAJOR US CORPS HAVE BEEN OUTSOURCED TO INDIA AND ARE NOW EFFECTIVELY OFFLINE?

Customer Service, Invoicing/Billing and Payroll ...WHAT ??!!?


edit: Yeah, I thought about the possibility that this might be a Stux Attack by the Pakis -or even the Iranians since India is hosting so much US Corporate back office- as well...

zh:
This Is What 670 Million People Without Power Look Like: Pictures From A Blacked Out India
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/what-670-m....

americans have no idea. wonder if a stuxnet from Pakistan is a precursor for an attack?

So now I will be routed to Peggy instead of 'Bob' for my customer support?

In true Gov style.

Power Minister Sushilkumar Shinde promoted post-blackouts to Finance Minister
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/power-....
Tue Jul 31 2012

I have read a long time ago about how tons of people in India piggyback on electrical lines.

Reason found out.One corridor was over-stretched 200% of its capacity and then it tripped resulting everthing to fall as a domino. Not a good design evidently.

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.....