Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Power is now fully restored to three electricity grids which had failed in India - AFP

AFP - Power has been fully restored to three electricity grids which had failed in India, causing a blackout affecting more than 600 million people, a senior power official told AFP Wednesday.

"Power has been restored fully across the northern, eastern and north-eastern grids," Power System Operation Corporation chief S.K. Soonee told AFP, referring to the systems which collapsed on Tuesday in an unprecedented outage.