Rahul Bedi said power cuts in India
were not unusual but that the scale of latest blackout combined with the
heat made it particularly serious.
“In India we are very resigned to these kind of catastrophes as we live
in the summer months with power shortages, but this year has been
particluarly bad because temperatures have gone up to about 46C and we’ve
had a very poor monsoon, which normally comes in early June and takes the
edge off the heat,” he said.
According to the government, the northern, eastern and northeastern grids were
hit, wider than Monday’s blackouts. The northern grid alone covers more than
300 million people from the mountains of Himachal Pradesh to the Gangetic
plains in Uttar Pradesh, which has a larger population than Brazil.
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