Resiliency Determination of North Eastern Regional Grid of India

Hon'ble Prime Minister of India, on 3
^rd
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 5
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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.