Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Asia - Voice of America: India Blackout Highlights Power Problems in Developing Countries

Asia - Voice of America
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India Blackout Highlights Power Problems in Developing Countries
Aug 1st 2012, 17:44

In recent years, developing countries have made huge investments to expand power supply networks, but India's outages - which left 670 million people without power this week - demonstrate that reliability remains a major problem.   The collapse of three interconnected power grids caused havoc on the streets as traffic lights stopped working. Trains ran late, if at all. And people in shops and businesses across the north of India tried to work by candlelight.   ...

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