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Electrical power supply has grown enormously during this century. In 1950 the total capacity of generators producing electricity in India was less than 3000 MW. Today, the power generating capacity is around 120,000 MW. The polyphase AC system, which is to a large extent the legacy of Nikola Tesla, is central to all power generation. Power systems these days are complex interconnected networks spread across the country. How are they structured? How have we been doing in India?
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D P Sen Gupta, Electricity: AC vs DC, Resonance, Vol.2, No.10, pp.46–53, 1997.
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D P Sen Gupta graduated in Physics from Presidency College, Calcutta and later in Electrical engineering from IIT, Kharagpur. He obtained his PhD from the University of Liverpool and taught there for five years before joining IISc, Bangalore. After retirement he continued in IISc as an Emeritus Fellow and is presently an Honorary Professor at NIAS, Bangalore. The major areas of his research were dynamics of power systems and problems of rural power situation in India. Writing books of science for children is his major preoccupation now.
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Sen Gupta, D.P. The legacy of Nikola Tesla. Reson 12, 69–79 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-007-0039-9
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