Resiliency Determination of North Eastern Regional Grid of India

Hon'ble Prime Minister of India, on 3rd April 2020, urged people of India to switch off the lights at their homes and light up candles, lamps or mobile phone torches for nine minutes at 9 pm on 5th April 2020 to display the country's “collective resolve” to defeat the COVID-19 pandemic. While this may sound to be a simple proposition, considering the uncertainty of the collective impact of human behavior, elaborate planning was necessary. This paper discusses about the unanticipated quantum of load reduction and how the inter-connected North Eastern Regional (NER) Grid of Indian Power System demonstrated its resilient nature. The factors which contributed to the resilient nature have been analyzed and quantified.