Who is his boss? The politician and the bureaucrat. Why doesn't he do it? Because his bosses told him not to do it. They could have disconnected the customer, they could have disconnected the whole state and protect the grid. SURENDRA RAO: The Load Despatch Centers must have known on their screens who was consuming too much. He says collusion of that kind takes India's energy grid one step closer to collapse as a sophisticated monitoring system is ignored. Surendra Rao, India's former top electricity regulator, suspects the blackout was the result of powerful states guzzling more than their budgeted share of electricity while regulators looked the other way. JULIE MCCARTHY, BYLINE: One leading theory for the record-setting power failure is corruption.
While the Indian system has no shortage of flaws and inefficiencies, NPR's Julie McCarthy reports that one of its biggest problems comes down to politics. An investigation is now under way into what caused the massive outage. But last week, an unprecedented blackout cut power to more than half a billion people and exposed serious vulnerabilities in its energy supply system. India is one of the world's major emerging economies.
From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED.
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