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KEY HIGHLIGHTS
- As confirmed by MSETCL, in its statement on today’s situation, the outage happened due to a breakdown (bus trip) in their 400 KV substation of Mahatrans at Padgha.
- Tata Power ensured the running of its hydro, gas, and thermal plants to the full capacity to safeguard the city against further load shedding.
- Electricity has now been fully restored in Mumbai and the surrounding MMR region after a near one hour outage, the MSEDCL said.
As confirmed by MSETCL, in its statement on today’s situation, the outage happened due to a breakdown (bus trip) in their 400 KV substation of Mahatrans at Padgha. This substation supplies power on Padgha to Pal 220 KV high-pressure line and it got disrupted. This had a resultant impact on the
“At 10:08 AM, around 150MW load connected to our
The statement further read, “Mumbai’s power network is wired up to keep the city’s system safe from widespread outages in case of any major tripping. In such a scenario, automated power supply trimming gets activated, like what has happened today, resulting in load trimming to effectively manage the load. In fact, the unique power network of Mumbai helps in avoiding the outages similar to as observed two years back i.e. on October 12, 2020.”
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