Massive outage hits Mumbai
Large parts of the financial capital were hit by a massive electricity failure on Tuesday morning as a generating unit of Tata Power Company tripped and no relief is likely for consumers before late night.
Parts of South and Central Mumbai, including business districts, faced outage from 9.45 am due to the tripping of unit 5 of the 500- MW Tata Power plant at Trombay near here due to technical glitches, which forced the private utility to switch off several feeders.
“Partial load has been restored through hydro stations and the company has activated the initialisation activities of its cold standby unit 6 which runs on oil. Units are expected to be fully restored and power is expected to be normalised fully by late night today,” a TPC statement said in the evening.
The tripping resulted in load reduction in Parel, Mahalaxmi, Dharavi, Chembur and Grant Road areas of South Mumbai. This impacted controlling loading on the 220KV Kharghar- Nerul- Sonkar-Trombay tie line which supplies power to the island city.