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Grid Collapse Leaves 360 Million People Without Power In India -ALERT
Business Week via Bloomberg News
India resumed power supplies to most of the 360 million people plunged into darkness by the worst grid failure in a decade, an outage that shut transport networks, triggered commuter chaos and halted water supplies.
“Power supply has been restored to all states and the situation is near normal now,” Power Grid Corp. of India Ltd.’s projects director I.S. Jha said by phone. “We will have complete normalcy once thermal plants resume complete generation.” Jha said Power Grid had bought power from the eastern and western regions to reconnect services.
Businesses and households across much of Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Rajasthan states had to turn to generators, while services on New Delhi’s metro and Indian railways were suspended for several hours. Traffic signals failed, jamming roads.
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