Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Power Outages in India affect up to 600 Million

And fortune 500 companies want to offshore all IT work to India? Hope they sent some caterpillar diesel generators with all those jobs.

From Bussiness Insider

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After a massive power outage that impacted 370 million people on Monday. North, east, and north-east India were impacted by a second blackout today that hit 600 million people.

While these power cuts were blamed on agri-rich states that drew more power than was allocated to them, India's corruption problems and lack of reforms have deterred investments in the country's power sector.

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Traffic chaos in Delhi as signals fail

Jul 31, 2012 by AssociatedPress

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. 

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