The odd part
Creating a national grid so integrated that a single hiccup in a desert can cause a power plant 2,000 km away to catch a fever.
What happened
The Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has warned that India’s national grid is suffering from dangerous 'oscillations' because it isn't 'smart' enough to handle the record 48 GW of green energy added this year. In a feat of unintentional telepathy, a power fluctuation generated in Rajasthan was physically felt at the Kudankulam nuclear plant in Tamil Nadu. While engineers call it a 'cascading failure risk,' we prefer to see it as the government's way of making sure the entire country literally feels 'connected' through a shared sense of impending darkness.