The document discusses three major power blackouts in history: the 2012 blackout in northern India affecting 700 million people, the 2005 blackout in Java and Bali affecting 120 million, and the 2009 blackout in Brazil and Paraguay impacting 67 million people. It details the causes, impacts on daily life, and the eventual restoration of power in each incident. Additionally, the document provides a brief history of electricity, notable inventions, and interesting facts about electricity across various contexts.

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1-India - July 30-31, 2012
(700 million people
affected)
The worst blackout in recent
history occurred in northern
India on two consecutive
days in July 2012. The first
blackout occurred on 30 July
in the Northern grid,
affecting 300 million people
in nine states including
India's capital region New
Delhi.
A bigger blackout occurred
the next day in the NEW
grid which comprised the
Northern, Western, Eastern
and North-Eastern grids
after the Northern grid was
restored and synchronized
with it. It affected a total of
700 million people across 20
Indian states.
Overdrawing of electricity
by certain states and weak
inter-regional power
transmission corridors were
cited as the reasons behind
the blackout.
The incidents caused trains
to fail and traffic lights to
stop working, causing
multiple traffic jams.
Surgical operations were
cancelled and construction
and mining work was halted
across the northern region of
the country.
2-Java and Bali, Indonesia
- 18 August 2005 (120
million people affected)
A power outage occurred
across the Indonesian islands
of Java and Bali in August
2005, affecting 120 million
people or nearly half of the
country's population. The
capital city Jakarta and its
neighbouring province of
Banten were completely
blacked out, and parts of
West Java, Central Java and
East Java also suffered
blackouts.
The Java-Bali power grid,
which had an installed
capacity of 19,615MW,
collapsed due to the failure
in a 500kV transmission line
between Cilegon and
Saguling in West Java.
Transport services were
disrupted and
a number of international
and domestic flights were
delayed or cancelled due to
the outage. The grid system
was, however, fully restored
within 24 hours.
3-Brazil and Paraguay - 10
November 2009 (67 million
people affected)
Major parts of Brazil and the
whole of Paraguay were
blacked out for two to four
hours on 10 November 2009
when strong winds and heavy
rains caused three
transformers on a high-
voltage transmission line to
short circuit, affecting a total
of 67 million people.
Six states in central and
southern Brazil, including the
cities of Rio de Janeiro and
Sao Paulo, were blacked out,
which eventually led to the
shutdown of the Itaipu
hydroelectric dam after the
lines connecting to the plant
went down.
The dam, which is situated on
the Paraguay-Brazil border,
stopped producing 18,000MW
of electricity, affecting both
countries. A number of car
accidents were also reported
during the blackout due to
lack of street lighting.
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Refresh your mind with electric
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Try it out 5
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2. When electricity was
invented?
Throughout the next hundred
years, many inventors and
scientists tried to find a way to
use electrical power to make
light. In 1879, the American
inventor Thomas Edison was
finally able to produce a
reliable, long-lasting electric
light-bulb in his laboratory.
When was electricity
invented and used?
The world's first public
electricity supply was provided
in late 1881, when the streets
of the Surrey town of
Godalming in the UK were lit
with electric light. This
system was powered from a
water wheel on the River
Wey, which drove a Siemens
alternator that supplied a
number of arc lamps within
the town.
When did electricity become
available?
Edison not only invented an
incandescent electric light,
but an electric lighting system
that contained all the
necessary elements to make
the incandescent light safe,
economical, and practical.
Prior to 1879, direct current
(DC) electricity had been
used in lighting for the
outdoors.
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10,000 times. I’ve
just found 10,000
ways that won’t
work. Our greatest
weakness lies in
giving up. The most
certain way to
succeed is always to
try just one more
time.”
~Thomas Elva
Edison
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ASPIRATION
AND 99%
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3. TRY IT OUT!
“If you apply an
electric current to
a pickle, the salt
water in it acts as
a conductor and
will cause the
pickle to glow in
the dark”
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1. Reports of people
receiving shocks from
electric fish date back to
ancient Egyptian texts of
2750BC.
2. Ancient Romans
recommended touching
electric fish to cure
headache or gout.
3. Around 600BC, Greek
philosopher Thales of
Miletus became the first
person to experiment on
electricity obtained by
rubbing pieces of amber.
4. First use of the word
‘electric’ in print was in
1646, from the Greek
‘elektron’ meaning
‘amber’.
5. Edison invented the
electric chair not as a
means of execution but 6.
The first street in the
world to be lit by electric
light bulbs was Mosley
Fun Facts of Electricity…
Street, Newcastle upon
Tyne, in 1879.
6. The first four common
domestic items to be
powered by electricity
were the sewing machine,
fan, kettle and toaster.
7. In the Mexican city of
Torreon, you can be fined
£20 for using an electric
razor while driving.
8. Iceland is the only
country whose electricity
supply comes entirely
from renewable sources.
9. The electric eel can
deliver shocks of up to
600 volts. It is not an eel
but a type of knife fish.
10. First Use of Electricity
No doubt, we are using
electricity in present age
for various purposes.
However, the first use of
electricity was only for
lighting and also for
domestic purpose nothing
else.
11. Bio-Electricity
The natural use of
electricity in human body
was discovered by Luigi
Galvani in 1791. He
claimed that the medium
used by nerve cells to pass
signals from the muscles
is also electricity.
12. First Bulb
Thomas Edison was the
man, who enlightened the
whole world. He invented
the first glowing light
bulb in 1879
1-WWF’s Earth Hour is
an annual global
celebration where people
switch off their lights for
one hour to show they
care about the future of
our planet.
2-Earth Hour started in
Sydney, Australia, in
2007. This event saw 2.2
million homes and
businesses turn their lights
off for one hour to make
their stand against climate
change that
year. Earth Hour had
become a global
sustainability movement
with more than 50 million
people across 35 countries
participating in 2008.
3-"I Will if You Will" is a
challenge-based campaign
in which individuals,
groups, businesses, and
governments offer to do
something helpful or
entertaining in exchange
for public commitment to
green-minded actions and
eco-sensitive products.

4. Publishers:
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well.
Vegetables and fruit were
eaten fresh during the
growing season, but things
such as apples, pears could
be dried for the winter.
A type of refrigerator was
known as far back as the
time of the US Civil war;
Louisa May Alcott refers to
such an appliance in her
novel "Little Women," set
in the 1860's and 1870's.
The next innovation
(perhaps Alcott refers to)
was the "icebox," basically
a cabinet cooled by ice,
which was delivered in
blocks on a daily basis. It
worked well for keeping
food fresh for a relatively
short period.
Since air conditioners were
unknown, people tried to
build houses with high
ceilings and large windows.
In the Southern states,
"sleeping porches" were
For light, there was the
sun during the day, and
candles and oil lamps
(fueled by kerosene) for
after dark.
In some European
nations, there were stoves
for heating in places other
than the kitchen.
Since there was no
refrigerator, food
preservation was a real
problem. Meat was often
smoked to keep it from
spoiling, or dried (as in
beef jerky), or preserved
in salt.
Dairy products were kept
in cool places as could be
found; if you happened to
be lucky enough to have a
spring on your property, a
building called a spring
house was often built over
this. It provided a place
that was cool enough to
keep butter and milk fresh
for a few days and eggs as
sometimes built onto houses.
Clothing, bed linen, and
everything else had to be hand
laundered. This was done using
a large wash pot over a fire to
wash the clothes in, then another
large pot (or two) for rinsing
them. A scrub board was used to
get the dirt out; harsh soap was
used, and wrung out by hand. It
was then hung up on a
clothesline to dry, which were
usually propped up with long
forked sticks that were called
wash props. This kept the
weight of the wet clothes from
causing the clothesline to sag (or
even break), which of course
meant that all the laundry had to
be done over again. Those who
could afford it often employed
someone to do this for them, or,
if they lived in a city, sent the
clothing to a commercial
laundry.
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