Islamabad: Due to major breakdown of electricity due to fault in National Grid, electricity supply is suspended in various cities including Karachi.
The Ministry of Energy said in a statement that according to initial reports, the system frequency of the National Grid decreased at 7:34 this morning, causing a widespread breakdown in the power system. The work on restoring the system is going on rapidly. has been started.
The spokesman of the Ministry of Sources says that in the last one hour, the grid has been restored in a limited number of Islamabad Supply Company and Peshawar Supply Company. The fault occurred in the line of NTDC from Gudu to Balochistan. The breakdown has disrupted power supply across the country. All grid stations were also shut down in Lesko.
Sources say that due to the disconnection between the transmission line and the power plant, the frequency of power decreased, which led to cascading and one power plant tripped one after the other. Other reasons and problems for the power suspension are being determined.
Due to the shutdown of power plants, electricity has been cut off in most of the districts of Sindh province, South Punjab, Central Punjab, LESCO and most of the ISCO region. The functioning system at the airport was also disrupted.
Sources at Karachi’s Jinnah Terminal say that electricity supply has been started by running generators at important points of the airport.
According to ISCO spokesperson, the power supply to 117 grid stations was affected due to the breakdown, direct monitoring of the system restoration is going on from the central control room, power is being restored to the feeders in a phased manner to protect the system from damage. Full recovery will take time.
Earlier, Energy Minister Khurram Dastgir reached the National Power Control Senator on the breakdown. Monitored nationwide power breakdown restoration from NPCC control room. NPCC briefed the Energy Minister that the Goodman power line tripped due to difference in power frequency, cascading effect due to tripping, high demand and lack of supply in the power grid causing difficulties in restoration work. .
NPCC gave a briefing that they are trying to restore power by disconnecting the North-South connection, emergency has been declared in NPCC, all officers are present in the control room.
Electricity restoration work has started on the affected feeders in Isco region
Power restoration work has been started on the affected feeders in ISCO region, power has been restored on more than 50 feeders connected to different grid stations. According to ISCO spokesperson, the feeders are being restored in a phased manner to protect the system from overloading.
Allowance of release of water from Mangala for load balancing
Efforts are being made to restore the system through Mangala to balance the load in case of power breakdown. According to the sources, Ursa has allowed the release of water from Mangala.
According to Irsa officials, water was blocked from Mangla Dam due to the blockage of canals, the system is likely to be balanced with 1000 MW coming into the system from Mangla.
According to the sources, efforts are being made to bring the required electricity to the grid for the maintenance of the system.