Power restored in Karachi's most parts after EHT tripping
According to K-Electric, supply to most parts has been restored.
KARACHI (Web Desk) – Power normalisation process is underway in Pakistan’s largest and richest city, Karachi, after disruption of supply to major parts of the metropolis due to tripping of Extra High Tension Line (EHT) early Friday morning.
All affected areas have been energised. Some areas are still undergoing restoration work. pic.twitter.com/xC4jyRvwsH
— KE (@KElectricPk) March 11, 2016
Affected areas include Defence, Clifton, Bath Island, Malir, Gulshan Iqbal, Gulistan-e-Johar, Federal B Area, Orangi, Nazimabad, Liaquatabad, Buffer Zone, North Karachi, Surjani Town, SITE and Baldia Town.
The metropolis of 23 million people accounts for half of Pakistan’s national revenues and is home to the stock exchange, the central bank and a giant port.
Earlier on January 29, a major power breakdown left 90 percent of the city without electricity and brought much of normal life to a standstill. The major outage had forced shops, hospitals and businesses to turn to back-up generators as the lights went out, including those in the provincial assembly.
K-Electric, the private utility company running the electricity supply, had said high levels of humidity tripped a transmission line to cause the blackout.
Power cuts running eight hours each day on average have crippled an economy already wrestling with militant violence, a high budget deficit and falling exports.
Pakistan‘s electricity distribution system is a complex -- and delicate -- web and a major fault at one section often leads to chain reactions and breakdowns of power generation and transmission.
