Power Cut in India

[davepoth]

Hardly a rare occurrence for the power to go down there, I know, but roughly 10% of the world's population plunged into darkness is a bit mad.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-1906027...

[Huff]

Much of the re-start problem seems to be - it takes serious power, or at least available power on the grid, to re-start generation/close the breakers. IOW a stability condition problem - not a new problem by any means regardless of Nation.

I do hope it gives serious pause for thought to nimbys and politicos against bashing-on with new nukes over here... otherwise we'll be in the same boat well within the next decade.

[Puggit]

Terrible power cut in the UK too. We were without power for 6 hours and only now are running on power supplied by an SSE generator.

2nd time this year too

It's effecting about 0.000025% of the UK!

[SystemParanoia]

they shouldent have spent so much on a space programme then, or wasted all our aid money... no sympathy

[emicen]

Given how much we give them a year in foreign aid and they have the funds to try buying our unwanted aircraft carriers and run a space programme, I am struggling to find sympathy for their failing infrastructure

[Pommygranite]

Had a mate live in India - said nothing works and you wouldnt get in a lift as you might not get out - is this true and is India in the main a dogs hit hell hole?

[Asterix]

I'm in India quite often.

Let's just say that its wonderful for one's perspective.

I was in Bangalore a few weeks back and there was on average three powercuts a day.

[jezzaaa]

Asterix said:

I'm in India quite often.

Let's just say that its wonderful for one's perspective.

I was in Bangalore a few weeks back and there was on average three powercuts a day.

I've never been to India, but there are hundreds of thousands of natives living and working out here with me in the Middle East...and all I can say is that I'm not at all surprised. I rarely come across native 'Professional' Indian/Pakistanis who (while being lovely people, meaning well and knowing their stuff technically) do a job properly with all quality control and diligence checks required. A significant amount of hand-holding has to occur to get anything done well, and most of the time I'm sure they think we're being unecessarily thorough/anal! This is the educated few as well of course, mostly with IT degrees from Indian Universities and CCIE qualifications. But...it keeps me in a job because of it so i'm grateful!!

Edited by jezzaaa on Wednesday 1st August 06:28

[Asterix]

A lot of it stems from their education process - its purely by rote. I've often likened it to working with computers - they're only as good as the info put in and come to a grinding halt if you're not crystal clear.

Obviously a sweeping statement.

[XJSJohn]

Pommygranite said:

Had a mate live in India - said nothing works and you wouldnt get in a lift as you might not get out - is this true and is India in the main a dogs hit hell hole?

in a nutshell .... yes!

[Digga]

When the herd thought India and China could grow exponetially, for decades, they forgot the tricky bits of infrastructure required. This is simply one example of how difficult it is for us to yet consider either nation remotely developed.

Of course with increased global competition, this could simply be a sign of where the rest of us are headed.

[powerstroke]

Huff said:

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I do hope it gives serious pause for thought to nimbys and politicos against bashing-on with new nukes over here... otherwise we'll be in the same boat well within the next decade.

We wont have the same problem !! as we are fitting solar panels and are buillding lots of windmills it's the green revolution dont you know, hurrarrh... cough!!!!!!

[shirt]

unstable grids in third world countries shocker!

SystemParanoia said:

they shouldent have spent so much on a space programme then, or wasted all our aid money... no sympathy

pistonheader in sweeping statement shocker!

the world bank [through which our aid is delivered] is falling over itself to fund power projects. however, much of this is short term loans for short term plans, the funding and scope of work is nowhere near the size it needs to be to replace aging power lines, substations, switchgear, etc. then you have hundreds of millions of end users who's connection point would need upgrading as well. the numbers are phenominal.

most power spend is going purely on additional capacity as the priority of government is to bring 'power to all' not 'stable power for most]. therefore what you get is western companies being paid to facilitate short term rental power contracts feeding yet more power into a weakened/failing grid.