Bijli aur Invertor...

Summer is an oppressive time in Delhi. You can cook your lunch on your terrace without gas and half-boil eggs on car bonnets. Surely you don't want to be living on a top floor. Heat is unrelenting and its difficult without an AC or a cooler. But fortunately or unfortunately, AC runs on electricity, something which the capital is always short of. Therefore, Dilli has always had a huge demand for invertors/generators and around 01-02, it became a cottage industry in Delhi. Inspired by the success of private distribution in Bombay and Hyderabad, DVB decided to rope in NDPL and BSES to cut its HUGE T&D losses. Now what I find to be very amusing are the trends of the past couple of years. I believe that the electricity situation has improved in the capital since the Transcos came, but I also observed that the moment the season changes (around April), there are a lot of power cuts. The situation improves considerably in a fortnight or two. I'm only guessing but I think there is some tacit understanding between the inverter companies and the transcos. Rising mercury coupled with power outages make invertors a compelling choice! Don't know if something is possible at the dealers-substation leverl but surely if there is an invertor manufacturers association, need to know what it does! And if it doesn't do anything, here is some food for thought for it.