Power Outage News
Mumbai’s power islanding system needs an upgrade
The islanding system, built by Tata Power in 1981, is designed to isolate its electricity network from the rest of the western grid during widespread grid disturbances
1 min read19 Oct 2020Power outage brings Mumbai to a standstill
According to a statement from MSETCL, which operates four 400kV transmission lines fetching power to Mumbai, it could not complete ongoing maintenance work on two of these four lines to fix a broken conductor and an obstructed insulator
2 min read13 Oct 2020Mumbai power cut leaves trains stuck on tracks, WFH staff hit
Power restoration efforts began on ’war footing’ and pocket-wise resumption in supply was started around 12 noon onwards, nearly two hours after the outage
3 min read12 Oct 2020California avoids major power outages as wildfires rage
Rescuers in military helicopters airlifted 207 people to safety over the weekend after an explosive wildfire trapped them in a popular camping area in California’s Sierra National Forest
3 min read7 Sep 2020Typhoon Haishen hammers southern Japan with high winds and power outages
Typhoon Haishen battered Japan’s southern mainland with powerful winds and drenching rain, cutting power to tens of thousands of homes and prompting authorities to call for some 1.8 million people to evacuate
2 min read6 Sep 2020Making a case for microgrids
Every trend concerning solar power points towards a future where every nook and corner of the nation will able to power itself
5 min read6 Nov 2017Hurricane Irma to put $3 billion worth of power grid upgrades to test
As Hurricane Irma bears down on Florida this weekend, the state’s utility customers will find out exactly what $3 billion worth of power-grid upgrades got them
2 min read9 Sep 2017Cyber firms warn of malware that could cause power outages
Industroyer or Crash Override may have caused a December 2016 Ukraine power outage, and can be easily modified to harm critical infrastructure operations around the globe
3 min read13 Jun 2017British Airways points to human error for May flight outage
An engineer had disconnected a power supply at a data centre, causing British Airways’s systems to crash, causing hundreds of flights to be grounded
1 min read6 Jun 2017Kerala, Maharashtra, Rajasthan top list in providing uninterrupted power: Urja app
Government’s Urja app shows Jharkhand, Uttarakhand and Assam lag in supplying uninterrupted power
2 min read11 Apr 2017Popular Topics
Budget
The Union Budget contains details about the estimated receipts and the expenditure of the government for a particular fiscal year. The Budget is allotted for the upcoming fiscal year, which runs from 1st April to 31st March of the next year. Here is a quick guide on how the Union Budget is prepared