Narendra Damodardas Modi (born 17 September 1950) is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current Prime Minister of India since 2014. He was the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament for Varanasi. Modi is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu nationalist volunteer organisation. He is the first prime minister outside of the Indian National Congress to win two consecutive terms with a full majority and the second to complete five years in office after Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Modi's Sunday, 9pm, 9-minuted blackout: India’s power sector gears up
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for switching off lights for 9 minutes at 9 pm on Sunday may result in an electricity load reduction of around 13 giga watts (GW) on India’s power grid, with current lighting load estimated at be 11,344 mega watt (MW).
Experts believe that while the quantum of power demand reduction can be handled by the grid operator, it is the rate of change that may pose a problem.
Seized of the issue, state run Power System Operation Corp. Ltd (Posoco) that oversees India’s electricity load management functions, in an advisory issued on Saturday, said “It is inferred that total domestic lighting load reduction at all-India level is anticipated to the tune of 12-13 GW.
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