India’s northern power grid collapses for 2nd day in a row

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Streets are packed in heavy traffics following power outage and rains in the central part of New Delhi, India, Tuesday, July 31, 2012. India\'s energy crisis spread over half the country Tuesday when both its eastern and northern electricity grids collapsed, leaving 600 million people without power in one of the world\'s biggest-ever blackouts. Traffic lights went out across New Delhi. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

NEW DELHI – An Indian electricity official says the country’s northern power grid has failed for the second day in a row.

Shailendre Dubey says the grid collapsed about 1:05 p.m. Tuesday. Dubey is an official at the Uttar Pradesh Power Corp. in India’s largest state.

The outage came just a day after a similar collapse of the northern grid left 370 million Indians across eight states without power for much of the day.

Both outages affected the capital, New Delhi.

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