Showing posts with label Power outage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Power outage. Show all posts

Friday, August 03, 2012

Power Grids Overloaded Many Places


This is the real solution: The Moon Does Not Have Water.

Outage in India Could Be a Harbinger for the Rest of the World
The growing complexity and reliance on the electric grid in both developed and fast-growing countries is making stability tougher to achieve..... "Saying the reason for India's gridwide collapse was that they had more load than generation is too simplistic." .... Mansoor suspects it is something fairly mundane, such as a failed relay or a grid operator making a mistake ..... the causes of India's blackouts have more to do with politics than technology and engineering
You might argue the same for APIs. They are so intermingled, there might be an outage or two down the line.
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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Half Of India In The Dark

electrical sunset grid
electrical sunset grid (Photo credit: soonerpa)
Time to work to commercialize Nepal's 43,000 MW hydroelectric potential.

Something like this happening in the US would have been a terrorist attack.

The unofficial power grid is like the Indian economy's informal sector. It is kind of important.

Power Failures Hit Half of India
About 600 million people lost power in India on Tuesday when the country’s northern and eastern electricity grids failed, crippling the country for a second consecutive day. .... The outage stopped hundreds of trains in their tracks, darkened traffic lights, shuttered the Delhi Metro and left nearly everyone — the police, water utilities, private businesses and citizens — without electricity. .... an unofficial power grid in the form of huge numbers of backup diesel generators and other private power sources..... The failure happened without warning just after 1 p.m. ..... supply and demand may not explain away this week’s grid failures .... state governments which were overdrawing power. .... “We have one of the most robust, smart grids operating” in the world .... “We had never anticipated such a thing” ..... over 26,000 megawatts of power stations are idle due to the nonavailability of coal
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Microgrid

Solar Panel - Labatts Plant in Background
Solar Panel - Labatts Plant in Background (Photo credit: chucka_nc)
Microgrid Keeps the Power Local, Cheap, and Reliable
ties together power from fuel cells, solar panels, wind turbines, and diesel generators ..... to form a microgrid that can operate independently of large, centralized power plants. ..... an emerging smart-grid technology that's providing a cleaner, more reliable, and, in some parts of the country, significantly cheaper alternative to the conventional grid. ..... special software and power electronics to integrate multiple sources of power and energy storage to provide electricity around the clock, even when the sun isn't shining or regulations limit the use of diesel generators ..... If the utility experiences a large spike in demand, the microgrid can respond by selling excess power to the utility. .... The first customers for microgrids are businesses and organizations that can't afford even short power outages—such as jails, hospitals, data centers, and military bases—or remote areas that don't have access to the grid.
This philosophy has to be applied to the growth and consumption of food. Not all of it. But at least some parts of it. People should have the option.


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