[View the story "Looking for Your Help: India's Electric Summers" on Storify ]Looking for Your Help: India's Electric Summers Economic growth in India has far outpaced its electric infrastructure. Frequent power outages have led to a crowdsourced effort to monitor cuts countrywide. Live in India? We want to hear from you. Storified by The Stream · Wed, Oct 26 2011 21:59:45
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With rapid growth comes a big increase in electricity consumption. And the load on the system is worsened by widespread electricity theft.
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With the exceptional load on the electrical system, residents country-wide often see power cuts.
It's official now. Power supply will be cut for three full hours daily in Coimbatore city. City suburbs and rural areas will be without power for four hours. Also, a seven hour power outage will be imposed on high-tension industrial units.articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Over the last one year, city residents have been put through a two hour scheduled power cut during peak morning or evening hours. However, last Friday, the TNEB snapped power supply for an additional one hour and 20 minutes without any prior announcement. Hit by an acute power shortage, the board had unofficially brought in the three hour load shedding.articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Comments on the power cuts range from humour to frustration.
Dear China, don't worry we're not competing against u to be the best. We can't even provide electricity to our national capital. Thx, India.tinkoo
India will be a super power only if we stop "power cuts". These power cuts are really ruining my plansVignesh Rocking Rambler
How to Party during a Power Cut in the Punjab, India...!!PunjabiPaintings
Powercuts.IN is set up to track power outages in India. They take info via Twitter, SMS, e-mail, smartphone applications and their website. The site was launched in preparation for the summer, when heat waves tend to cause more power cuts.
Power Cuts in IndiaPower Cuts in India - We track power cuts in India through the power of crowdsourcing! - Description: How to report? 1. Twitter: Tweet with #powercutindia and tell us when there is a cut. 2. On through our website: 3. Email: send an email to reports@powercut.in ------- Follow us on Twitter: @PowerCutsIN There is an App coming soon!
"Help spread the word" - if you are in India & facing a powercut this summer, tweet ur location with hashtag #powercutindia and the details mentioning street/city & pincode. Sangeeta-Lokesh Thakral
Access the mobile web version of the site & use it to send reports by point your mobile's browser to http://m.powercuts.in #powercutindiaPowerCutsIN
Powercuts.IN requests data to be sent in a specific format and that when the power comes back on it is reported as well.
#powercutindia (street, city - location name/pincode) #from (time) #planned or #unplanned (if its a scheduled load shedding or unexpected outage). Also report with #powercutindia #back when it comes back. Refer to the detailed and other format guidelines below. wiki.ictd.asia
01:00 PM, 5th Avenue, Anna Nagar, Chennai, planned, #powercutindiaanandakonar
Powercut for 5 hrs, start time <11 am>, Pashan/Pune, unplanned #powercutindiasrujanip
#powercutsindia Guwahati, Beltola, 781028,5:45-6:50 pm. Frequency and duration of powercuts increasing since election results declaredbhas
Thus far the project has gained some dedicated followers before the power cut high season, if it can alter Indian development plans is yet to be seen.
How come there is no one tweeting about the #powercutsindia from #Nagpur??Trippleh1
55 tweets generated 65,479 impressions, reaching an audience of 38,608 followers within the past 24 hours Calculated from up to about 1,000 tweets | Generated Fri May 13 2011 10:46:28 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)beta.hashtracking.com
A simple Google-Twitter web mashup clearly shows the areas which require investment to curb power cuts problems in India.Rashmi Saini
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