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High heat knocks out power to hundreds of millions in India:

We’ve previously mentioned the link between hot days and increased power demand. Not like we’re genius scientists for doing so; it’s a pretty obvious connection. The hotter the day, the greater the demand for air conditioning and fans, the more strain on the electrical grid. Today, India faced the worst-case scenario. The power grid across northern India failed Monday, halting hundreds of trains and leaving millions of 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. … It was the first time since 2001 that the northern grid had collapsed. But India’s demand for electricity has soared since then as its economy has grown sharply, and the outage was a reminder of the country’s long road ahead in upgrading its infrastructure to meet its aspirations of being an economic superpower. I...

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High heat knocks out power to hundreds of millions in India. [link] Hot Days = Higher Energy Demand
@grist » 30 Jul '12, 10pm
A power grid outage today in India affected an estimated 370 million people: [link] And yep, high heat played a role.
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Climate change is sure to make peak energy even worse. [link]
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RT @350: Extreme weather knocked out power for *370 million* people in India today. [link] #350ppm
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RT @drgrist: High heat knocks out power to hundreds of millions in India [link] Good argument for distributed energy.
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High heat knocks out power to hundreds of millions in India [link]