Power fully restored to India electricity grids: Official
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An illuminated stretch of a residential complex is pictured after electricity was restored in New Delhi on July 31, 2012. Hundreds of millions of people across India were left without power on Tuesday in one of the world's worst blackouts, trapping miners, stranding train travellers and plunging hospitals into darkness when grids collapsed for the second time in two days. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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A shopkeeper watches a screen as he waits for customers at his illuminated shop after the electricity was restored in New Delhi, July 31, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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Indian schoolchildren walk beneath electrical wires at a slum in Noida, a suburb of New Delhi, India on Wednesday, Aug 1, 2012. An estimated 620 million people were left without electricity Tuesday afternoon after India’s northern, eastern and north-eastern grids cascaded into failure. -- PHOTO: AP
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Illegal subsidiary wires are mangled to the main cables on an electric pole in New Delhi, India on Wednesday, Aug 1, 2012. Vast amounts of power bleeds out of India's antiquated distribution system or is pirated through unauthorized wiring. An estimated 620 million people were left without electricity Tuesday afternoon after India’s northern, eastern and north-eastern grids cascaded into failure. -- PHOTO: AP
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An Indian man rides a motor scooter past a power station on the outskirts of New Delhi, India on Wednesday Aug. 1, 2012. An estimated 620 million people were left without electricity Tuesday afternoon after India’s northern, eastern and north-eastern grids cascaded into failure. -- PHOTO: AP
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Indian commuters exit an underground metro station where services were fully restored after Tuesday's power outage in New Delhi, India on Wednesday, Aug 1, 2012. -- PHOTO: AP
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Traffic moves along a busy road after electricity was restored in New Delhi July 31, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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An Indian commuter walks past the status board for trains displaying "Indefinite Late" for all the trains following the power outage that struck in the early hours of Monday, July 30, 2012, at a train station in New Delhi, India. -- PHOTO: AP
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An Indian passenger talks on her mobile phone as she waits at a railway station following an overnight regionwide power outtage in New Delhi on July 30, 2012. -- PHOTO: AFP
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Passengers sit in a train and wait for power to be restored at a railway station, in New Delhi, India, on Monday, July 30, 2012. -- PHOTO: AP
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Passengers sit in a train and wait for power to get restored at a railway station in New Delhi, India, on Monday, July 30, 2012. -- PHOTO: AP
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An Indian passenger sits as others sleep inside the compartment of a stationary train following the power outage that struck in the early hours of Monday, July 30, 2012 at a train station in New Delhi, India. -- PHOTO: AP
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Stranded foreign passengers wait for their train at New Delhi railway station, in New Delhi, India, on Monday, July 30, 2012. -- PHOTO: AP
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A stranded passenger brushes his teeth at the door of a stationary train compartment following the power outage that struck in the early hours of Monday, July 30, 2012 at a train station in New Delhi, India. -- PHOTO: AP
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Traffice crawls in Connaught Place in New Delhi on July 31, 2012 as the traffic flow worsened in the afternoon after signals stopped functioning following a failure in the Northern Power Grid. -- PHOTO: AFP
An illuminated stretch of a residential complex is pictured after electricity was restored in New Delhi on July 31, 2012. Hundreds of millions of people across India were left without power on Tuesday in one of the world's worst blackouts, trapping miners, stranding train travellers and plunging hospitals into darkness when grids collapsed for the second time in two days. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A shopkeeper watches a screen as he waits for customers at his illuminated shop after the electricity was restored in New Delhi, July 31, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Indian schoolchildren walk beneath electrical wires at a slum in Noida, a suburb of New Delhi, India on Wednesday, Aug 1, 2012. An estimated 620 million people were left without electricity Tuesday afternoon after India’s northern, eastern and north-eastern grids cascaded into failure. -- PHOTO: AP
Illegal subsidiary wires are mangled to the main cables on an electric pole in New Delhi, India on Wednesday, Aug 1, 2012. Vast amounts of power bleeds out of India's antiquated distribution system or is pirated through unauthorized wiring. An estimated 620 million people were left without electricity Tuesday afternoon after India’s northern, eastern and north-eastern grids cascaded into failure. -- PHOTO: AP
An Indian man rides a motor scooter past a power station on the outskirts of New Delhi, India on Wednesday Aug. 1, 2012. An estimated 620 million people were left without electricity Tuesday afternoon after India’s northern, eastern and north-eastern grids cascaded into failure. -- PHOTO: AP
Indian commuters exit an underground metro station where services were fully restored after Tuesday's power outage in New Delhi, India on Wednesday, Aug 1, 2012. -- PHOTO: AP
Traffic moves along a busy road after electricity was restored in New Delhi July 31, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
An Indian commuter walks past the status board for trains displaying "Indefinite Late" for all the trains following the power outage that struck in the early hours of Monday, July 30, 2012, at a train station in New Delhi, India. -- PHOTO: AP
An Indian passenger talks on her mobile phone as she waits at a railway station following an overnight regionwide power outtage in New Delhi on July 30, 2012. -- PHOTO: AFP
Passengers sit in a train and wait for power to be restored at a railway station, in New Delhi, India, on Monday, July 30, 2012. -- PHOTO: AP
Passengers sit in a train and wait for power to get restored at a railway station in New Delhi, India, on Monday, July 30, 2012. -- PHOTO: AP
An Indian passenger sits as others sleep inside the compartment of a stationary train following the power outage that struck in the early hours of Monday, July 30, 2012 at a train station in New Delhi, India. -- PHOTO: AP
Stranded foreign passengers wait for their train at New Delhi railway station, in New Delhi, India, on Monday, July 30, 2012. -- PHOTO: AP
A stranded passenger brushes his teeth at the door of a stationary train compartment following the power outage that struck in the early hours of Monday, July 30, 2012 at a train station in New Delhi, India. -- PHOTO: AP
Traffice crawls in Connaught Place in New Delhi on July 31, 2012 as the traffic flow worsened in the afternoon after signals stopped functioning following a failure in the Northern Power Grid. -- PHOTO: AFP
NEW DELHI (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 official told AFP on 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.
Mr Soonee said that power had been re-established overnight by engineers from PSOC, the state-owned company which manages the country's electricity generation system.
The three power grids collapsed from around 1pm local time (3.30pm Singapore time) on Tuesday, and electricity was gradually restored during the course of the day.
