Thanks, I appreciate your inputs. This sounds very plausible.RajeevK wrote:It was more of a cascading effect.YashG wrote:https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/28/us/p ... icity.html
This article is a big deal. In an event of war India could be crippled internally. Maharastra political leader Raut has also acknowledged the same.
Someone in the forum has said this wayback but I thought it was some conspiracy theory but I have now seen this being spoken by several reputed sources. It is quite concerning.
As per Blame game begins between MSETCL, Tata Power over Mumbai power outage
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Waghmare termed it as an "unprecedented" event, where two of the four lines getting power to Kalwa sub-station got physically snapped -- one was under maintenance and the last one from Kharghar was manually shut on the day as there were sparks observed due to the extra load on Monday.
The islanding system would have saved the day for Mumbai, Waghmare said, adding that the system was specifically created to avoid a total breakdown in services and relies on Tata and Adani''s power generation.
However, two "major units" of Tata were not functional on the given day, Waghmare said, adding that Tata''s power stations are not in grid many a time or may have been under maintenance which delayed their coming on-board.
A 250-MW thermal unit of Adani also stopped generating power the same day at 1300 hrs, aggravating matters, he said.
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I guess if someone wants to, Adani can be blamed as well. Thankfully Ambani was not involved.
Also this incident should be used as a plank to phase out Chinese equipment in power sector. BHEL makes good power equipment and they should not be edged out by Chinese.
I'd perhaps wish to actually plant such stories media to create scare for Chinese equipment and try to push BHEL and l & t made equipments to south asian and middle eastern markets. I'd pay nytimes or other us media some money to publish more such stuff.