Inevitable Power Outages

Even today while the world has entered into 21st century, uninterrupted power supply is yet to be accomplished on a 100% level. It is only the natural calamities that are unexpected and take off the authorities by the collar, out of the blues. No matter how good services we offer and no matter how technological advancements we make, nature would still stand higher to mankind.

Last week the power outage in North Texas due to a storm rendered 245,000 electricity customers sit in the dark. Though the American companies are very active in handling such unforeseen situations, the people too show resilience during such times as these. Due to heavy wind and rain, many trees fell down and power lines knocked.

The power restoration was being done by Oncor power company. Oncor Power company is a unit of Energy Future Holding. Energy Future Holdings operates 3 business divisions:

1. TXU Energy, a competitive electricity retailer;
2. Luminant, a competitive power generation business; and
3. Oncor, a regulated power distribution and transmission business.

Oncor employed extra crew for power restoration , but heavy rains and lighting kept them restrained for a while.

While this is a scene of 1 out 365 days in North Texas, some places in India RECEIVE power for 1 day out of 365! Can you believe there are still a lot of interior villages in India that are deprived of energy resources. There primary source of energy is Wood and Sun. But that doesnt suffice, does it?

The contrast in the living standards keeps me wondering sometime.