印度大規模斷電後恢復供電

Power has been fully restored in India following a cascading blackout that left more than 600 million people without electricity.

Officials said Wednesday the power was back on in northern and eastern India, where Tuesday's historic outage affected people in 20 states.

The blackout was the second in as many days.

Indian Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde blamed Indian states for triggering the grid failure by drawing more than their allotted share of power. But the chief of India's Power Grid Corporation cautioned it was too soon to know for sure.

Limited power failures are common in India, but analysts say such large-scale outages highlight the weaknesses in the country's infrastructure as India strives to become an economic superpower.印度經歷一次大停電後，目前電力供應已經全面恢復。在停電期間，印度有六億多人無電可用。

有關官員星期三說，印度北部和東部地區已經恢復供電。星期二的大停電使20個邦的居民受到影響。

印度這次停電的時間之長在有記錄以來位居第二。

印度電力部長辛德說，這次大停電的原因是印度各邦超額用電，導致電網不勝負荷而出現故障。但印度電力公司負責人說，目前下結論還爲時過早。

小規模停電在印度司空見慣，但分析人士指出，在印度爭取成爲經濟超級大國之際，這種大規模停電凸顯了印度基礎設施的脆弱。