Northern Grid

Several cities in northern China broke heat records for June this week, with soaring temperatures straining the country's electricity supplies and leading authorities to hold mock emergency drills.

The Indian Army on Tuesday said it has set in motion a process for installation of a green hydrogen-based micro grid power plant project in the forward areas along the northern borders, a move that comes amid the eastern Ladakh border row with China.

Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL) has invited applications for offering Diploma Traineeship.

Electricity regulator CERC has directed Power Grid to probe incidences of collapse of transmission towers in the Northern region last month that happened in the wake of inclement weather.

The northern electricity grid suffered a load loss of 8,000 MW, including 3,500 Mega Watts (MW) in the national capital, during a fierce storm in the region yesterday and power supplies are gradually being restored.

Areas across the Delhi on Monday reeled under outages for up to four hours due to cut in power supply by a number of generating stations and technical snag in the Northern Grid.

The Northern Grid, the vital power supply line to the entire North India, has witnessed as many as 21 forced transmission outages due to fog in the last one week.

The 1,500 MW Nathpa Jhakri, 1,000 MW Karcham-Wangtoo and 300 MW Chamera II hydro-power projects have been shut temporarily due to high silt levels in water. Electricity generated in these three plants is fed to the northern grid, which caters to 28 per cent of India's population. There is a shortfall of around 3,000 MW supply to the northern grid d...

Over drawing of electricity by northern states could be one of the reasons for the massive power failure last month that hit half of the country's population, according to the initial findings of a high-level panel appointed by the government to probe the grid collapse.

Unlike the country's northern, eastern and northeastern power grids which collapsed early this week, the state-run Karnataka Power Corporation Ltd (KPCL) on Thursday claimed that the southern power grid was safe from tripping or facing any risk of failure.

India, recovering from its worst-ever power outage, has been smarting over the promotion of Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde to the Home Ministry. But for those outraged by the timing or the merit of that transfer, here's a bigger point of concern. A senior official at the Power Ministry told NDTV a repeat cannot be ruled out, partly because th...

Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has said that there is no proof that his state, Uttar Pradesh, contributed to India's largest power outage by exceeding its quota, and putting the Northern supply grid under massive strain.

After the massive power failure, the big blame game. The Centre has come down sharply on Punjab, Haryana and UP saying they overdrew 4000 MW of electricity and that caused the tripping of three grids in a cascade effect yesterday, leaving 600 million people without power. The states deny that their actions triggered the huge power collapse. Till th...

A blame game has erupted among states over the unprecedented power outage on Tuesday that affected 600 million people - over half of the country's population. The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) has reportedly summoned officials of five states, which drew more power than what had been allocated, leaving 19 states in the dark. The r...

19 states and more than 600 million Indians found themselves without power on Tuesday afternoon, after three major grids that supply electricity tripped in quick succession. By 11 pm, power had been restored to 80% of Northern India, and all of Delhi. The country's southern and western grids were supplying power to help restore services in the aff...

Several cities in northern China broke heat records for June this week, with soaring temperatures straining the country's electricity supplies and leading authorities to hold mock emergency drills.

The Indian Army on Tuesday said it has set in motion a process for installation of a green hydrogen-based micro grid power plant project in the forward areas along the northern borders, a move that comes amid the eastern Ladakh border row with China.

Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL) has invited applications for offering Diploma Traineeship.

Electricity regulator CERC has directed Power Grid to probe incidences of collapse of transmission towers in the Northern region last month that happened in the wake of inclement weather.

The northern electricity grid suffered a load loss of 8,000 MW, including 3,500 Mega Watts (MW) in the national capital, during a fierce storm in the region yesterday and power supplies are gradually being restored.

Areas across the Delhi on Monday reeled under outages for up to four hours due to cut in power supply by a number of generating stations and technical snag in the Northern Grid.

The Northern Grid, the vital power supply line to the entire North India, has witnessed as many as 21 forced transmission outages due to fog in the last one week.

The 1,500 MW Nathpa Jhakri, 1,000 MW Karcham-Wangtoo and 300 MW Chamera II hydro-power projects have been shut temporarily due to high silt levels in water. Electricity generated in these three plants is fed to the northern grid, which caters to 28 per cent of India's population. There is a shortfall of around 3,000 MW supply to the northern grid d...

Over drawing of electricity by northern states could be one of the reasons for the massive power failure last month that hit half of the country's population, according to the initial findings of a high-level panel appointed by the government to probe the grid collapse.

Unlike the country's northern, eastern and northeastern power grids which collapsed early this week, the state-run Karnataka Power Corporation Ltd (KPCL) on Thursday claimed that the southern power grid was safe from tripping or facing any risk of failure.

India, recovering from its worst-ever power outage, has been smarting over the promotion of Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde to the Home Ministry. But for those outraged by the timing or the merit of that transfer, here's a bigger point of concern. A senior official at the Power Ministry told NDTV a repeat cannot be ruled out, partly because th...

Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has said that there is no proof that his state, Uttar Pradesh, contributed to India's largest power outage by exceeding its quota, and putting the Northern supply grid under massive strain.

After the massive power failure, the big blame game. The Centre has come down sharply on Punjab, Haryana and UP saying they overdrew 4000 MW of electricity and that caused the tripping of three grids in a cascade effect yesterday, leaving 600 million people without power. The states deny that their actions triggered the huge power collapse. Till th...

A blame game has erupted among states over the unprecedented power outage on Tuesday that affected 600 million people - over half of the country's population. The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) has reportedly summoned officials of five states, which drew more power than what had been allocated, leaving 19 states in the dark. The r...

19 states and more than 600 million Indians found themselves without power on Tuesday afternoon, after three major grids that supply electricity tripped in quick succession. By 11 pm, power had been restored to 80% of Northern India, and all of Delhi. The country's southern and western grids were supplying power to help restore services in the aff...