How many hours of power cut in your village/city?

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cyberabad / hyderabad , 1 hour per day ... although those are rare days not everyday , the old city has 2 hours a day it seems , back in my old city of coimbatore , it is 2 hours per day
 
wtf happened to the US India nuclear deal, I thought we will start building nuclear power plants now.
 
here in Hubli (N. Karnataka) it is just 1-2 hours max and thats too not everyday...generally power will go at around 10 when most of my neighbors are sleeping or at 11 am...also in Lucknow where i am from we dont have power cuts in my area. Generally when it rains very hard they cut power for 30mins to 1 hour
 
Ahmedabad

0 Scheduled Powercuts for the past 9 Years I have been here...
If power goes it mostly is my Main Line switch trippin :P

Got no UPS as I dont need one in Ahmedabad :)
 
Ahmedabad FTW!!! btw my area has power cuts frequently at times for 5-10 seconds or sometimes for a couple of hours but that too very rarely.
 
sometimes at chennai i get power cut every 30min to 2 hour someday and it suck cause of overloading high power amps at all over the apartment city
 
I've seen three power outages this year, and they were due to major faults in the electricity line. Each time, the electricity was back in an hour or so. Ahmedabad has a very stable electricity supply, there are no fluctuations either, you can use your computer without a UPS or spike guard.
 
asingh said:
Usually at night though. After 11 : 00 PM
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Odd, because at night over here it almost never goes off, why should it ? the demand is the lowest then.

neoronin said:
The worst part of the power cuts in Bangalore are the unpredictability of them. Can never predict when they would take off the power. This is playing havoc with the schedule of so many households early in the morning when kids get ready for school and folks go to office.
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I've noticed this off late, but in the previous months it was fixed timings for a month or so before they changed it but then it would stay fixed. This was an improvment to the past where it was unpredictable, whenever there was a spike it just went off. I thought things were getting better but now its reverted back again to unpredictable times.

At least it's possible to plan around scheduled cuts but absolute hell otherwise :(

neoronin said:
The cuts are also so frequent that the UPS hardly has any time to charge itself. In my area, we are suffering a minimum of 7 hrs of power cut daily.
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This is the main problem, sometimes just an hr or two and not more between cuts. I think there have to be two sets of batteries in this case. Yeah, sweet times to be in the UPS & battery business isn't it.

neoronin said:
Coming from a city which never had any major power problems, I fail to understand how can the Karnataka government let Bangalore suffer like this.
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Well i had high hopes when the BJP came to power and it improved for a little bit, but i think that might have been mostly due to rains but right now for the last two months or so its no different to the previous, useless JD(S).
 
I live in Navi Mumbai. The power cut ranges from 5 minutes to 1hr. In summer it is upto 2 hrs. the situation has improved recently when they started upgrading the power nodes in Navi Mumbai. But still the power cuts are unpredictable and go at very annoying times.

The worst part is when playing games. You play like madman for hours to go through a difficult part and just when you have made it , the power goes. There are no words to describe what frustration i feel when something like this happens.
 
blr_p said:
Odd, because at night over here it almost never goes off, why should it ? the demand is the lowest then.
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I think night time the demand is at its peak in residential areas thanks to the ACs which get turned on.
 
better positioned here in regard to powercuts, no powercuts whatsoever anytime.

only scheduled repairs invite powercuts, last I remember was almost 8 months back for whooping 30 minutes.

I am in Surat, Provider Torrent Power.
 
asingh said:
Usually at night though. After 11 : 00 PM. If the lights do not come after an hour, a gang usually runs to the Vidyut office and creates a scene. Two weeks ago, around 50 guys came below my house at 2 : 00 AM (there is a transformer there) with the line men, and forced them to repair it. Gunda raj...!
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Doesn't work like that in this part of town. We have our share of red necks who vandalise the electricity office to protest against the power cuts. But every time something like that happens, the very next day, MSEB doubles the hours of load shed. It is it's way of getting back at the public. So now, the public can't even vandalise their offices in fear.

Theirs a saying "g@@nd pe laath maaro, pet pe nahi. I have no pity or kindness left for these govt employees. Look at how they sustain themselves and strike back at you whenever you happen to point a finger at them. Privatise the electricity board and let these people burn. I mean it.
 
In my city power cut duration varies area to area....

it the area where there is more cases of "bijli chori" and less bill payment than power supplied there is more power cut...

where there is full payment, no power cuts...

Fortunately, I m in 'sidhee logon ka mohalla', hence no power cuts anytime :D
 
agantuk said:
I think night time the demand is at its peak in residential areas thanks to the ACs which get turned on.
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Well, if they want AC's during the night they surely require them during the day as well isn't it :)

One would expect the load to be higher in the evening rather than late at night where it should be at its lowest for the day.

broadway said:
MSEB doubles the hours of load shed. It is it's way of getting back at the public. So now, the public can't even vandalise their offices in fear.
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All this points to insufficient capacity. Problem is nobody seems to want to admit it.

Vandalising will only make the problem worse, talk about shooting yourself in the foot.

Privatising won't solve things either as there is the political element that comes into play here. Give free electricity for votes etc. One thing is for sure, not only is there is insufficient capacity but on top of it they have pilferage and cannot crack down.

So if the problem is capacity then why can't more power stations come up. The majority of power comes from coal fed stations worldwide with the exception of France or the middle east. It's not very clean but can be made cleaner for the cheapest cost compared to other options and we have hundreds of years worth of coal in this country anyway.

It's apparent Gujarat is the model state here, very few interruptions if any. What's the secret ?

Very hot place to live in so reliable electricity is essential.
 
I'm in Kolkata. Our part of the city sometimes gets about 30-45 minutes of power-cut, off-late though the power cuts have plagued us more.
 
Usually its 5 hours per day though out the year and 7~10 hours cut + low voltage at night during summers. Thankfully this summer has been slightly better and the power cuit rarely went above 5~6 hours.
 
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