Mumbai metropolis is dealing with an enormous energy reduce on Sunday resulting from grid failure. There was no electrical energy from Colaba to Mira Highway.
BMC commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal confirmed that Backbay Reclamation and Nariman Level 110 KV provide restored at 10.23 am.
The BMC commissioner mentioned the facility outage within the island metropolis of Mumbai was because of the tripping of Tata Energy grid. “Tatas say working to revive energy to island metropolis shortly,” Chahal mentioned.
The facility outage was nearly in your entire metropolis, BMC officers instructed CNBC TV-18. It is going to take at the least an hour for the electrical energy to get restored in all of the areas, they mentioned.
State authorities officers instructed CNBC-TV18,”Attributable to tripping of MSEB 220kv Transmission line on Mulund -Trombay the facility provide to most of elements Mumbai has affected as knowledgeable by Head of Electrical Provide Division of BEST.”
Earlier than this, it was in October 2020 when Mumbai witnessed an identical energy outage. A chance of a cyber assault being the explanation behind the outage began making rounds.
Maharashtra authorities fashioned an eight-member committee to research the facility outage headed by Prof Fernandes, IIT- Mumbai, Dept of Electrical Engineering.
The panel submitted its report in November 2020 and cited cascade tripping as the explanation and dominated out the cyber sabotage angle. The committee report talked about that resulting from heavy rains that 12 months, the Talegaon-Kalwa line acquired broken and that burdened the opposite three traces and resulted in Oct 12, 2020, energy outage.
However in March 2021, a US-based firm issued a report mentioning some unidentified Chinese language entities being concerned within the energy outage.
Since then ministers within the state authorities additionally began speaking a few overseas hand being chargeable for the facility outage.
Extra probes had been ordered by the Centre and state governments and lots of of these reviews are but to be submitted, officers mentioned.
(Edited by : Bivekananda Biswas)
First Printed: IST