Mumbai in darkness: Tata Power unit trips, blackout in nearly half the city

Mumbai: Several parts of south and central Mumbai faced massive power outages today after a unit of TataPower’s Trombay plant, which primarily supplies to the city,tripped.

The power outage, which started at about 9.45 AM, isyet to be restored, said Tata Power which was last monthallowed to distribute power in the island city.The tripping forced the company to switch off severalfeeders, it said.

“Tata Power would like to inform that today at 0945hrs the power supply was affected due to tripping of unit 5 ofTrombay power station. This tripping has resulted in loadreduction in Parel, Mahalaxmi, Dharavi, Chembur and Grant Roadareas of south Mumbai. This impacted controlling loading onthe 220Kv Kharghar-Nerul-Sonkar-Trombay tie line whichsupplies power to the city,” the power company said in a
statement.

The company further said it is working towards anearly resolution and will ensure power supply to these areasat the earliest.

The affected consumers are mostly of the state-runBEST as no private player is distributing power in the islandcity. The BEST (Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport),which gets its power supply from Tata Power, has around 10lakh consumers in the city.

Meanwhile, BEST in a statement said following thetripping at Tata Power unit at 0940 hrs, it has been facingtransmission constraints to bring power from outside to thecity.

“Due to this, rotational load shedding has beenimposed by Tata Power in Dadar, Mahim, Dharavi, Sion,Prabhadevi, Parel, Sewree, Byculla, Chinchpokli, Girgaon,Mumbai Central and part of Hutatma Chowk, Ballard Pier,Nariman Point and area around Metro Cinema,” BEST said.

Meanwhile, Reliance Infrastructure, which suppliespower in the western suburbs of the city, said, “Due totripping at Tata Power unit no. 5 of 500mw, there istransmission constraint on its transmission corridor. Due tothis, rotational load shedding has been imposed by Tata Power
in Chembur, Santacruz, Ghatkopar, Bandra, Kurla, Tilaknagar,Vikhroli, Saki Naka and Juhu.”

“We regret the inconvenience and are constantly intouch with Tata Power for restoring normalcy at the earliest,“Reliance Infrastructure added.

PTI