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Raisethefist.com: Most power restored after India hit by second, even larger outage
Most power restored after India hit by second, even larger outage
by anonymous Wed Aug 1 00:21:32 PDT 2012
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Miners in the Burdwan District of West Bengal state were hit by the blackout too.
The district's top administrator, O.S. Meena, told CNN that 150 coal miners were working underground when the outage struck, stopping lifts.
Authorities switched to emergency supplies to run the elevators, he said. "All are safe," Meena said about the miners.
Monday's grid failure struck early Tuesday. By dawn, many backup power systems had run out of fuel; power was partially restored after about six hours, authorities said.
Airports and hospitals, running on backup power, remained operational, but many businesses closed, said Jyoti Kamal, senior editor for CNN-IBN.
The cause of the problem was the failure to generate sufficient power to keep pace with surging demand, he said.
Power is considered a luxury in much of India, where a third of households don't have enough to power even one light bulb, according to last year's census.
They tend to be more common during the summer, when demand rises.
Some of this summer's increased demand has been caused by farmers using more energy for irrigation and other tasks, in part because rains during this year's monsoon season, which began June 1, are down by more than a fifth. People are also using air conditioning units more to cope with high humidity.
The monsoon rains, which last through September but would normally be at their heaviest in July and early August, not only provide rain for agriculture and hydroelectric power, but serve as a natural coolant, said CNN meteorologist Brandon Miller.
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