India power outage plunges 370 million into sweltering darkness - CBS News
he power grid across northern India failed Monday, leaving 370
million people sweating in the heat in one of the worst blackouts in a
decade, highlighting the country's inability to feed a growing hunger
for energy.
Hundreds of trains were halted, and hospitals and airports were forced to use backup generators to perform basic functions.
New
Delhi's prestigious Metro, which has 1.8 million daily riders, was
among rail services that went down when the country's northern grid
crashed about 2:30 a.m. because it could no longer keep up with the huge
demand for power in the hot summer, officials in the state of Uttar
Pradesh said. But, Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said he was not
sure exactly what caused the collapse and had formed a committee to
investigate it. Residents woke from sleep when their fans and air
conditioners stopped, came out of their homes in New Delhi's sweltering
heat as the entire city turned dark. Temperatures at that time were in
the mid-90 degrees F with 89 percent humidity.
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