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Power outages are categorized into three different phenomena, relating to the duration and effect of the outage: A transient fault is a loss of power typically caused by a fault on a power line, e.g. a short circuit or flashover. Power is automatically restored once the fault is cleared. A brownout is a drop in voltage in an electrical power ...
The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan (Urdu: آئین پاکستان میں چودہویں ترمیم) was an amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan passed in 1997, during the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, leader of the Pakistan Muslim League party.
A room during load shedding at night in West Bengal, India. A rolling blackout, also referred to as rota or rotational load shedding, rota disconnection, feeder rotation, or a rotating outage, is an intentionally engineered electrical power shutdown in which electricity delivery is stopped for non-overlapping periods of time over different parts of the distribution region.
The power outage created traffic jam in Singapore side of the Causeway and Immigration and Checkpoints Authority warned travellers of "tailback from Malaysia". Johor Menteri Besar , Onn Hafiz Ghazi , said that the power outage was an embarrassment to Johor.
The System Average Interruption Frequency Index (SAIFI) is commonly used as a reliability index by electric power utilities. This index measures the average number of times that a system customer experiences an outage during the year or during a given time period. [1] SAIFI is normally calculated on either yearly or monthly basis.
Forced outage rate (FOR or FOAR) of a power station unit is the probability that the unit will not be available for service when required.. FOR is defined as the number of hours the unit is on forced outage over the total number of hours in a year (which is the sum of hours the power station is available for service and hours the power station is in forced outage).
The Kalabagh Dam (Urdu: کالا باغ ڈيم) is a proposed hydroelectric dam on the Indus River at Kalabagh in the Mianwali District of Punjab, Pakistan.The dam, first proposed in 1950s, has been intensely debated along ethnic and regional lines for several decades.
This thus ushered in the term dumsaa: meaning off for a considerably long time or off all the time; [5] supposedly, a superlative form of dumsor. While officials of Ghana's energy sector regulators claimed that dumsaa , the new wave of dumsor , was due to transmission failures, [ 6 ] sector analysts believed dumsaa was a matter of gross ...