Talk:Rolling blackout

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Please change the refrence to rolling blackouts in India and Pakistan.

Its true this used to occur about 3 years ago but today, major cities experience no or very little blackouts while the villages experience blackouts but do get electricity for alot more than an hour a day.

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[edit] Blackouts in Ireland

I am quite confused with regards to the second paragraph about Ireland. Where did this occur? I have never experienced such blackouts in Limerick in the past decade - there has been the occasional very short blackout (i.e. less than 5 minutes), and there was a planned outage once last year for maintenance one afternoon a year or two ago, but that's about it. I have certainly never been aware of any blackouts on a national scale in recent years, though there is a recent advertising campaign trying to get people to cut down on electrical usage in evenings. --Zilog Jones 21:10, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Blackouts in China

I noticed a fair quantity of writing regarding blackouts in China and reckon it that it lacked any factural accuracy. Having lived in several different cities in China, planned blackouts are not rare, but far less common than suggested here, also as far as I know nobody in China receives free electricity. Lacking written statistics I am not able to put forward more accurate figures to replace them however talking to my friends who actually lived in Beijing the picture is a lot less bleak than it reads. Laforet 05:36, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] May 26, 2005 blackout in Moscow

As defined in the introductory paragraph, a rolling blackout is an intentionally-engineered electric power outage. The blackout in Moscow on May 25/26, 2005 was apparently caused by an unanticipated equipment failure and thus does not fall in this category of blackouts. The following text has therefore been removed from this article:

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On May 26, 2005[citation needed]large parts of Moscow and some of its suburbs, including Moscow underground, were blacked out for the whole day owing to a fire on a substation.

This blackout is documented at list of power outages. It would be appropriate to add the reason for the blackout to that list's entry, especially if someone can find a citation.

Piperh 21:36, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Blackouts in India

"Other developing countries, particularly Asian countries like Bangladesh, China, India and Pakistan have daily blackouts of up to 8 hours even in the capital and major cities. Rural areas receive power for as little as an hour a day." I am from India myself and this seems to be somewhat inaccurate. It might happen occasionally, if there is a serious shortage, but power cuts of those lenghts are rarely seen in urban areas. Most villages(with electricity) I know get a lot more power than just 1 hour per day. I agree with the person who posted on the top of this page.--DIGIwarez 14:07, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Blackouts in California

I removed the reference to California in the sentence claiming that blackouts are frequent and lengthy in certain developed countries (as noted above) because it was patently false. Blackouts, planned or unplanned, are extremely uncommon in California. Rolling blackouts were threatened and then implemented on a handful of days in 2000 and 2001, due to government mismanagement of electrical power industry deregulation which led to power supply manipulation, and have not recurred since. --71.104.17.242 08:02, 3 September 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Blackouts in South Africa

I have lived in South Africa all my life and I think it's quite unfair to say that rolling blackouts are "a staple of everyday life" here. We had some power problems a while ago, but on the whole the power is quite stable. Now, Zimbabwe on the other hand ... I am changing this reference. SKA-ed for Life 20:58, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] California Infrastructure

The article states that California electricity system is split into several grids, and these are arranged so that if a grid is disconnected then it will not effect a large area in order to prevent looting unrest etc. I was just wondering how large these areas of effect are, are we talking 1000,s of houses, a few streets, half the houses on a street? I was wondering because it seems to me that unless the areas are quite large, then implementing separate grids within an area would be prohibitively expensive and the money could have been much better spent on extra generating capacity or energy saving schemes.--Pypex (talk) 13:24, 12 January 2008 (UTC)