Mumbai Power Cut LIVE Updates: CM chairs key meeting; inquiry committee set up

Maharashtra Energy Minister Nitin Raut announced that a four-member inquiry committee has been set up with a mandate to examine the causes of the power failure and to find out if it was caused due to negligence. The probe will also find out why only 50% of the repair of the GIS system was done. The committee will also suggest measures to be adopted to avoid such incidents in the future.

The committee will submit its report within a week. Further, the MahaTransco has been directed to conduct root cause analysis and a technical audit of the transmission systems in the state. The repair and maintenance protocol will be strengthened. 

Tata Power released a statement explaining the reasons for the power outage and expressed regret for the inconvenience caused to the customers. 

Here is the statement:

“Based on the preliminary assessment of the situation, Tata Power would like to inform that today many parts of Mumbai experienced an unforeseen electricity failure starting at 10 am in the morning due to tripping of MSETCL’s 400 KV transmission system at Kalwa which supplies to Mumbai and adjoining areas. MSETCLs 400kV Pune-Kalwa line was under forced shutdown since yesterday due to R-Y phase fault.

It is understood that MSETCL had taken emergency shutdown for 400 KV Kalwa- Padghe line -1 at 6.54hrs today morning to attend fault and was expected to be revived by 09:30hr, but could not revive it. 

As understood, at 09:58hrs 400kV Kalwa-Padghe-2 carrying 633 MW tripped. The flow on Pune-Kharghar rose upto 900MW and tripped at 10:00hrs resulting in load drop in Mumbai system.

Mumbai’s islanding system that saves the city from major power outages was separated, however it could not hold as additional 900MW load dropped at 10:05hrs. 

Tata Power swiftly began restoration work to bring back supply from the 3 Hydro units and Trombay gas and coal units as soon as the MSETCL transmission lines were connected. Tata Power started restoring supply to its consumers progressively from 12 noon onwards.

Tata Power regrets the inconvenience caused to its consumers due to this unforeseen event in power failure due to the transmission system failure leading to the cascading impact to all downstream suppliers of electricity including Tata Power, BEST and its consumers.”

As per sources, Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray has called an urgent meeting at 4 pm to take stock of the situation after the major power failure in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region.

Union Power Minister RK Singh stated that the power supply in Mumbai has been restored substantially. Out of 2000 MW which went off, about 1900 MW has been restored. He assured that the remaining will be restored soon. Stressing that the national grid is fine, he noted that the problem happened in some parts of the state grid. Singh added that a team from the Central Authority would be sent to Mumbai that will sit down with the state transmission authority and find out where the problem was and how it started. He said that there will be a discussion on the steps to be taken so it doesn't happen again. 

Power supply to railways is restored. Power to other emergency services like hospitals are also being restored: Maharashtra Power Minister Nitin Raut

As Mumbai came to standstill after a grid failure caused a major power outage across the megapolis on Monday, Hindi cine personalities including megastar Amitabh Bachchan, actor Nimrat Kaur and filmmaker Kunal Kohli urged people to stay calm. 

Maharashtra's Power Minister Nitin Raut said the electricity supply in Mumbai was interrupted around 10 am during maintenance and repair work at Maharashtra State Electricity Transmission Company's 400 kv Kalwa-Padgha centre. 

In a Twitter post, Raut said the Kalwa-Padgha transmission line tripped, leading to power outages in Thane, Palghar and Navi Mumbai. "Consequently, cascading the power failure to Mumbai-Thane & Mumbai suburban city. It will be restored in approximately an hour," he tweeted.

Bachchan, who celebrated his 78th birthday on Sunday, was one of the first celebrities to react on the power outage in the city

Kohli requested his social media followers to not panic.

Veteran actor Anupam Kher and music composer Armaan Malik also shared their concerns over the power outage. 

Power supply restored at Municipal Head Office, A ward, B ward, C Ward, D ward, H/W ward, R/C, S ward, K/E & K/W ward, says BMC. Western, Central & Harbour Railway traffic restored at 1226 hrs.

Trains between CSMT-Panvel on Harbour Line have resumed. We're trying to restore services between CSMT-Kalyan, CSMT-Karjat/Kasara. Long-distance trains from Mumbai rescheduled, and incoming trains regulated at interchange points: CPRO, Central Railway

#PowerOutage
Following CR long-distance special trains rescheduled:

01055 LTT-at 1200 hrs
02542 LTT-Gorakhpur at1215 hrs
06345 LTT-Thiruvananthapuram at1240 hrs
01061 LTT-Darbhanga at 1315 hrs
01071 LTT-Varanasi at 1340 hrs

Inconvenience caused is regretted.

"All our hospitals are working and we have 24/7 power back up. Even now also power was backed up. It happened beyond BMC area in Thane and others. The electricity will be restored in 15 minutes": BMC Chief 

The Bhandup NBRS 33 KV substation, EHV GIS 220 KV Bhandup, 33 KV CBD1 and CBD 2, 220 KV Mahape line restored,  220 KV TIFIL, 220 KV Bapgaon, 400 KV Padagha 1, 220  KVColourchem, 220 KV Mulund 1&2,
220KV Siemens lines, 220 KV Uran, 400 KV Kharghar Kamothe, Roadpalli is restored and Panvel city restored.

Leading stock exchanges BSE and NSE on Monday said said they were functioning normally, amid a major power outage in large parts of Mumbai.

"There is a power failure in south Mumbai. Exchange is working normally. The listing ceremony was concluded successfully for Mazagon Shipbuilders today morning," a BSE spokesperson said.

The NSE too said it is functioning normally.

Large parts of the financial capital reported a major power outage on Monday morning due to a technical failure.

In a tweet, Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST) said "the electric supply is interrupted due to TATAs incoming electric supply failure".

Multiple operators, including the state-run BEST, Adani Electricity and Tata Power supply power to the city.

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The power supply in Mumbai will be fully restored in an hour, said a source.

The power outage was mainly because of a failure in the state grid and the city is supplied electricity under islanding system, the source told PTI.

Under islanding system, an area is supplied electricity in such a way that it is insulated from any grid failure or other technical issues happening outside that. 

The source also said that POSOCO has already charged up many electricity supply lines of the city and its suburbs.

Power Grid Corporation Ltd has no role to play as its main inter-state transmission lines were working perfectly, the source added.

Large parts of Mumbai and its suburbs faced a power failure due to which several trains have been held up.

Traffic signals in some areas were also not working.

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All students are hereby informed that due to massive power breakdown all over Maharashtra and as the extent and time of power outage can't be assessed,

All UG and PG examination are being rescheduled to Sunday, 18th October 2020. The timings will remain the same. Stay Safe.
Dr Hemlata Bagla
Principal KC College
Cluster Head university Examinations 2020

In an unprecedented situation, due to grid failure, there has been a power outage in the entire Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) region on Monday. The official Twitter handle of Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) Electricity informed that the electric supply is interrupted due to TATAs incoming electric supply failure. 

At 10.10 am there were simultaneous substation tripping in MSETCL's Kalwa, Kharghar causing a huge dip in frequency in Mumbai transmission system which led to tripping of power supply. Restoration work in progress to bring a supply from the 3 Hydro units & Trombay units: Tata Power

According to sources, a meeting is going on at Power Ministry headed by Union Power Minister RK Singh. Sources said it's a power failure at local level

Due to power supply failure in Mumbai region, residents of Mumbai are requested to call on 022-22694727, 022-226947725 and 022-22704403 in case of emergencies: Brihanmumbai Mumbai Corporation (BMC).

Due to a technical glitch in Circuit 2 of the Kalva-Padghe powerhouse, the regions between Thane and Mumbai are facing a power cut. Our staff is working on it and power will be restored in an hour or 45 minutes: Maharashtra Energy Minister Nitin Raut

All the hospitals to contact their respective SWM transport GARAGE officers to get enough supply of diesel for at least eight hours so that there is no power failures in hospitals especially ICUs. In case of any issues please contact the disaster control room for help. CE SWM to coordinate this. 

Disaster control and CE M&E To keep stand bye private MOBILE DG SET vehicles handy within next one hour in case power failure continues beyond two hours.  Please report to Shri. Narvekar or Smt. Sangita Lokhande at DM Control about this every half an hour. 
 

Preliminary Information
Date of incident: 12.10.2020 
➡ Time of incident reported:@1015hrs
➡ Incident reported by:  BEST Supply Control
➡  Incident: Power Failure  Level- L0
➡  Details: Electric power failure due to Central grid failure of TATA Power at Kalwa. It will take 45 min to 1 hr to restore the supply.
➡ Impact:1) Failure of Electric Supply all over Mumbai City & Suburb 2) Train traffic of all lines Central, Eastern & Western disrupted.

Operations at Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport is normal: Airport PRO

Large parts of the financial capital reported a major power outage on Monday morning due to a technical failure.

In a tweet, Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST) said, The electric supply is interrupted due to TATAs incoming electric supply failure.

Suburban local train services, operating only for essential workers at present, were affected from 1005 hours, sources said.  Multiple operators, including the state-run BEST, Adani Electricity and Tata Power supply power to the city.

Officials at the utilities were not immediately available for comment.

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Both National Stock Exchange (NSE) and Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) say there is no stoppage in trading despite power cut in Mumbai: Reports

After several citizens complained of a sudden electricity outage in several parts,  '#powercut' started trending on Twitter. Here are some of the reactions:

Western Railway local trains shut between Churchgate to Vasai railway station due to grid failure. 400 KV Line has tripped. Whole MIDC, Palghar, Dahanu lines has affected. It will take one hour to restore the supply as per EHV team.

There is multiple tripping of lines and transformer (Kalwa-padghe and Khargar ICTs) supplying power to Mumbai system. 360 MW supply in Mumbai and suburbs affected. Restoration work is underway.