Regions affected by the Indian power blackout
I smell ChiCom hackers.....
I bet help centers for many US companies are freaking out...
In other words we have too many customers and the demand for our product is too high. Only to a socialist is this a problem.
When the grid cascades to a shut down, is it not success rather than failure? To prevent damage of overload to specific segments, the grid collapses by design. That is engineering success, not failure.
To be sure, at some point there was an event that is failure. That failure is rendered harmless to the rest of the grid when it shuts down.
something to think about before you outsource...
Put it in perspective.
In just this one failure, one-tenth of the world’s population lost power.
Stocks would go high, high, high - wouldn't they?
Just 2 miles from my house, the EPA has closed a fully built (circa 1955) and operational power generation facility
because it burns coal and it is cost prohibitive to retrofit scrubbers, etc.
Foolishness begets darkness.
...and reading closer, those “overdrawing power will be punished” PUNISHED!?
If private enterprise were prosperous, they would find the tipping point where supply capacity would meet expected demand. The government does not understand this, so they skip right over to “punish”. Whatever.
Let them use Solar.
Is it mean of me to wish this would happen, oh, about October 15th, to the blue states of the US? (I LIVE in a “blue” state)
All I can say is that if I see a news story about the electrical grid in Iran going down, and that news story is NOT followed by a military strike against Iran, then I can't imagine what would constitute "good timing" for a military strike.
How did anyone notice?
I am surprised regional rolling blackouts haven’t already occurred in the US during this hot summer especially with the EPA shutting down some 20 coal fired generating plants in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Our electric grid has to be teetering in this hot weather. I recently drove by a large wind farm in southern MN on one very hot (100+ degrees) afternoon and less than 10% of the windmills were turning despite what I assume would be a time of peak electric demand. So presumably there has to be a bunch of fossil fuel plants running to make up for what the windmills aren’t producing.
India Struggles to Deliver Enough Power is well worth reading at http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/20/business/global/india-struggles-to-deliver-enough-electricity-for-growth.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
Quotes from some of the article:
ELLORE, India — India has long struggled to provide enough electricity to light its homes and power its industry around the clock. In recent years, the government and private sector sought to change that by building scores of new power plants.
India has tried to built new power plants, like the one partly completed in the state of Andhra Pradesh. But there is often no fuel to run the plants. Companies like Sowmya Industries are hampered by power shortages.
But that campaign is now running into difficulties because the country cannot get enough fuel — principally coal — to run the plants. Clumsy policies, poor management and environmental concerns have hampered the country’s efforts to dig up fuel fast enough to keep up with its growing need for power.
A complex system of subsidies and price controls has limited investment, particularly in resources like coal and natural gas. It has also created anomalies, like retail electricity prices that are lower than the cost of producing power, which lead to big losses at state-owned utilities. An unsettled debate about how much of its forests India should turn over to mining has also limited coal production.......