Tracking Power Cuts in India

Power Cuts in India is an initiative to collect power outage data, accessible in various formats, and provide it back for public use. Ajay Kumar, a technologist and social worker, leads a team of volunteers including moderators, web and app designers.

The potential is to develop a better understanding of electricity demand; it also highlights where there is a need for investment in power production and supply. Citizens can use the data to ask their power supplier company sharp questions. Ajay and his team are combining this data with news reports about lost productivity as well as potential ways to use cleaner alternative energy sources. Policy makers can use this information to think about how to address India’s growing need for power to continue its industrialisation and urbanisation plans. Energy companies can use this data for aggregate supply tracking. By putting the data in the public domain, anyone with access to the Internet can use it...