How reliable is your mains power supply?

[asian1]

Hello
In my country, the electric utility company is a government owned monopoly with very poor service. I only get 900W! The company refuse to provide supply to poor people (450W) because they cann't find the correct meter. To get additional power rating (ie 1300 W), you must wait for several years and pay huge bribes!

Last night I got 3 hour blackout and the voltage often dropped to 170V (from 220V!)
I had destroyed at least a dozen Power Supply (PC Power & Cooling) and 3 UPS (APC) in the past 10 years. The only reliable stabilizer is APC Line-R power conditioner.

TV, Refrigerator, Washing machine and other electric appliances often destroyed by low voltage and poor lightning protection. The Electric contractor use poor quality grounding, because of corruption.

The power generation capacity is 18 thousand MW, unfortunately 6 thousand MW is broken, damge or under repair. The total consumption during peak hour approx. 13 MW. Therefore there are several rolling blackout everyday. The plan to build new power generators are cancelled after the financial crisis (1997). Now the foreign contractors are suing the government and power company in International court.

They plan to provide Internet through electric grid later this year, but I doubt about the quality and the speed.

[asian1]

>Japan

There is a plan for rolling blackout this summer in Japan.
The cause: Stupid TEPCO (Japanese power company) directors create fake nuclear reactor inspection documents. As a result the government had shutdown several large nuclear reactors. Perhaps they see the fake document on the movie "Chinese Syndrome"
I guess Japan don't want to repeat the same mistake as Chernobyl and Three Miles Island.

Japan Blackout

In Asia, there will be major crisis in 2004/2005, because the region had recovered from the crisis and start the expansion again. After 1986 revolution, most investors cancell their power generator project in Philipines. A nuclear reactor project was mothballed.

In Malaysia, the crisis started on 1996, because the corruption involving top government officials, son of Prime Minister and his friends. In Indonesia, the crisis start after the value of currency plunge 75% and corruption on "price fixing" and power generator projects.
The state owned company is forced to hike the price every 3 months to cover the "fixed price". In China, because of rapid growth of Industry, wealth and population will face energy crisis in 2005. Most household begin to buy AC, refrigerator, TV etc. In Auckland, NZ, there was an energy crisis (1996?) because of broken power transmission cable. The old power company had installed low quality cable (corruption).

I use 450 Watt solar powered generator to ease the energy shortage. I also use the heat generated by AC for water heater. Every major office / factory have their own generators.