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2012 India blackouts
Two severe power blackouts affected most of northern and eastern India on 30 and 31 July 2012. The 30 July 2012 blackout affected over 300 million people and was briefly the largest power outage in history, counting number of people affected, beating the January 2001 blackout in Northern India. (230 million affected) The blackout on 31 July is the largest power outage in history. The outage affected over 620 million people, about 9% of the world population, or half of India's population, spread across 22 states〔 in Northern, Eastern, and Northeast India. An estimated 32 gigawatts of generating capacity was taken offline.〔 An article in ''The Wall Street Journal'' stated that of the affected population, 320 million initially had power, while the rest of the affected population lacked direct access. Electric service was restored in the affected locations between 31 July and 1 August 2012.〔
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== Background ==
India is the world's third largest electricity producer and consumer of electricity after the United States and China; however, the electrical infrastructure is generally considered unreliable. The northern electrical grid had previously collapsed in 2001.〔 An estimated 27% of energy generated is lost in transmission or stolen, while peak supply falls short of demand by an average of 9%.〔 The nation suffers from frequent power outages that last as long as 10 hours.〔 Further, about 25% of the population, about 300 million people, have no electricity at all.〔 Efforts are underway to reduce transmission and distribution losses and increase production further.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Address power transmission and distribution losses )〕
In the summer of 2012, leading up to the failure, extreme heat had caused power use to reach record levels in New Delhi. Due to the late arrival of monsoons, agricultural areas in Punjab and Haryana drew increased power from the grid for running pumps irrigating paddy fields. The late monsoon also meant that hydropower plants were generating less than their usual production.〔
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