UnusedCandidate
UnusedCandidate t1_j5mrc13 wrote
Reply to comment by FormidableFloof in Nearly 220 million people in Pakistan without power after countrywide outage | CNN Business by calbert1735
Won't be intentional. The part just failed.
UnusedCandidate t1_j5l3dud wrote
Reply to comment by pargofan in Nearly 220 million people in Pakistan without power after countrywide outage | CNN Business by calbert1735
Seems fairly common. There's a tight Forex squeeze, Pakistan has no fuel resources of its own. It all culminates to this. There's also a third theory that a Chinese made grid control system failed, leading to this.
UnusedCandidate t1_j5l1pid wrote
Reply to comment by pargofan in Nearly 220 million people in Pakistan without power after countrywide outage | CNN Business by calbert1735
Did some digging. As per some forum posts, apparently power stations are turned off at night to conserve fuel and reduce loads. When the restart was attempted on Monday morning, the grid failed.
Another theory is that the load was too high on a local grid(Quetta, Balochistan), causing it to trip and sort of domino effect the entire national grid from there.
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Can't confirm either one in any meaningful way though.
UnusedCandidate t1_j5jfyjg wrote
Reply to comment by pargofan in Nearly 220 million people in Pakistan without power after countrywide outage | CNN Business by calbert1735
Voltage fluctuations from what I read. Also, the energy sector in Pakistan is deep in debt. This has prevented upgrades to the system. So maybe that. Old systems
UnusedCandidate t1_j6il6x4 wrote
Reply to comment by mycatatemyface in US to renew efforts to reduce India's oil, military 'dependency' on Russia by Falls_stuff
Small reminder: we already "tasted" China. Have them a bloody nose to the point where citizens can't even talk about casualties.
The response we got was essentially "tough", especially from major European "Powers". So don't worry, we don't expect much.