Now probably is a bit too late for me to talk about the electricity situation in Tamil Nadu. Maybe we aren't suffering as we used to over the past few months. Megabytes have been created about it(lets face it nobody writes these days). Memes adorned my wall like never before . But just like me , my mood to write is lazy and comes and goes as it wishes. Seems like one needs to surpass a certain amount of idleness to feel creatively challenged and raring to go on an adventure. Here I am sitting in my uncle's house , sleeping 10 hrs a day. Over the past 4 months of college life rarely have I felt such a need to type something to pass time . Such is the effect of FORMAL education on the human mind. Utterly sapping . Entirely draining.
Lets not gloat over the past . I am here to talk about the electricity shortage that we the non-Chennai ites had to suffer. 4 hrs I can understand . 6 yes . Grudgingly but understandable given the summer. Fucking 12 hrs !!! Do I live in Somalia ? Or Thailand where power cuts are famous ? DO I look like I can survive without a fan and a computer ?? What the fuck has been happening ?
The all knowledgeable guru has come to shed his light of wisdom on the darkness that surrounds the questions.
Numero Uno. Demand for power and resources is an ever rising curve. Its like the amount of books you have to read in every class since LKG . Always on the rise . Never stopping . Population increases .At a higher rate than fuel prices. With millions added almost every year there is always a need to bath more , feed more , cool and educate more. Especially in a country like India. Where we step higher day by day in both population and economy ( the latter I am not sure of thanks to the bumbling done by Chidambaram and co and Man(lolz)mohan Singh). From owning a TV , a sign of wealth and CLASS in the 80s to having every friggin iSHIT released by Apple our demand for the luxuries in life has grown. No longer you took summer for granted. Everyday you spend in Delhi must to you feel like its Shimla . Instead of living in a mountain where it is actually cold , you simulate that from your little room in a piss hot Tropical place . and yes therein comes to the picture your big fat AC. The ones in the colder places want their butt to be kissed by warm water everyday . So comes in water heaters. No longer are cakes and pastas something you ate on weekends. You cook them at home ,thinking yourselves to be appatucker posh Italians . Out cometh microwave ovens , Induction cookers , graters , binders , cheesers whatever crap is needed to cook pots of lard. All that runs on power. not the fat in your tummy. With more people joining TCS everyday this number is sure to increase exponentially ( for CS guys big-O 2^n).
How is this need for power satiated ? Big fucking huge , polluting , batshit ugly power stations come to the rescue. Chewing through tonnes of coal , oil , gas everyday they power industries and homes alike so that likes of you can freeze your ass of in Chennai and warm the hell out of a rock in Ooty . I should give a honorable mention to Hydroelectric plants too.
Now with more demand should come more supply . In any sane society the leader or organizers of the government of the society must have tonnes of data on the rising consumption of power and must realize that there must be provisions to meet that demand. they must commission new plants or improve the power output of the old ones to meet future demands and have standbys . BUT unlike many such ones, the one in Tamilnadu doesn't seem to be so. Rather it is ruled by idiots or more likely cunning fellers who care more about their pockets than the ones that put them in their current place. I wouldnt call them idiots , apologies for the previous remark. They are seriously cunning for made away with 20000000000000000 crore yet having 1000s of people support them . Now as long as money comes it it doesnt mean shit if people suffer or not. They distract you with IPL , super singerrrrr ( god I wish I can kill that program), neengalum vellalam oru pencil box and all kinds of horse crap ( the author however thinks that Englipeesh programs like TBBT , game of thrones etc are better and unlike Local programs do not waste time and are beneficial . Also when you talk to other peters you could exchange words like mind blown man !! fucked !! serious shit etc to show that you are high class ) . The ploy worked as they looted your home while you sat glued to the TV. But the side effect of all that looting was beyond a certain point the govt. was unable to bear the debt and the lack of care and had to cut power to stay afloat .
This lead to the first Anna Hazare Revolution of the 2011 where little kids and old hags sick of not being able to flirt with girls on fb got out of their house and start marching the streets as an evening exercise and sat in the grounds hoping for girls to walk in with shorts and sleeveless shirts . Fortunately the power cuts reduced and they went back to their normal selves poking crushes and tweeting roses.
Getting back to the point how bad is the deficit in the supply. Pretty fucking huge. Among the ones that read the paper ( no matrimonial , Friday review and TOI do not count) there was a small graphic a 2 weeks back on the Coimbatore edition . It showed the difference between demand and supply
year supply demand
05-06 10,064 MW 9500 MW
06-07 something I dont remember
07-08 reached parity. this is the year I remember from whence we've had daily
powercuts of 1 hr each
08-09 alarm . supply lower than demand by 500 MW
11-12 10,349 MW 12,XXX MW
out of this chennai ALONE consumes 2400 MW of power. yep thats right - 12500-2400 = 10,100 MW . 10,000-2400 = 8600 MW
so to satisfy TN's demand we would need 10K MW and all we have is 8K or less MW of power.
I don't really remember the exact figures ( bad memory) but then this I believe is enough for our discussion / During the last Karunanidhi regime , demand grew by 3500 MW. supply by 350 MW . we had 10% of the needs covered . Yet all this went unnoticed thanks to IPL, ICL , super singer , jodi no 1 and all that shit .who is to blame ? Him and his govt for cheating us ? or us for neglecting such a basic necessity ? are we too reliant on somebody slapping our skulls hard to jolt us into action ? When you spend crores buying apartments and homes why not a few lakhs to have your power augmented by solar power ? why not a wind turbine at the top besides that Sun TV Dish ?
Now comes the question : why doesnt the state do it ? why should we do it ? I pay 50 RS as tax everytime I eat at vegetable laden chappathi at chappathihut ! Well doofus , Tamilnadu has over 3500 MW installed capacity of wind power - 16% of all the installed capacity in India. But just like your intelligence , wind power is temperamental . Strong sometimes, nothing the next . as for solar , its too complicated to explain in a single blog post. If you have the time and patience and the will please contact me offline and we will have a good chat about it .
a honorable mention goes to all the big jewelry shops. big fucking hoarding full of a gazillion lights. Enough to light all the way from Residency to karumathampatti. Yet each shop 3 of them . One showing the cleavage , one the butt and the other the hip of a famous actress. I have to ask the Sridevi silks PR dept: what the bloody fuck do your ads with amala paul and sarees have in common. I see more of her navel than her saree. Is that supposed to attract women to your shop ? Or men ?? where is the saree in the friggin advertisement ?
so getting back to topic all this ravenous hunger for power cannot be satiated by the current supply . Kudankulam might provide the solution if
a. It it starts generating power by the the next summer.
b. All of its current 2000 MW are allocated to us. But the tyrants at the center will allot TN only 460 MW to TN so its still like getting a molaga bajji for lunch and asking you to be satisfied and thankful for it.
c. as soon as all of its 9200 MW theoretical capacity is brought into full production .
The all knowing gurus opinion is that a lack of foresight and action on behalf of both the govt and the people has brought upon this situation in TN. He believes that unless people act and start using more solar power on their own accord to atleast power their lights this situation will be aggravated . He also believes that the power wasted in fb and other online platforms talking about power consumption reduction and good conversation practices will be better used if people can shut the fuck up and stop whining and do something about it like turning off the computer when the internet is down or when there are no more Priya Rai movies to download .
And I second it .
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