NEPRA decides to form committee to investigate power breakdown
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The committee will include prominent engineers from NEPRA and private sector.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) has decided to form a committee to investigate the massive power breakdown that plunged most of the country into darkness in early hours of Sunday.
As per details, the committee will include prominent engineers from the regulator as well as private sector. The committee will investigate the reasons behind the breakdown.
On the other hand, National Transmission and Dispatch Company (NTDC) on Sunday also announced to form a committee for inquiry into massive power breakdown.
January 11, 2021
ISLAMABAD/LAHORE/KARACHI: The National Transmission and Dispatch Company (NTDC) has constituted a four-member inquiry committee to look into facts/causes of collapse of power system late Saturday night, which plunged most of the country into dark.
According to the NTDC notification, the committee includes GM North Malik Javeed Mehmood, GM technical NTDC Ghulam Abbas Memon, CE NTDC Atif Mujeeb Usmani and Chief Engineer (Network) NPCC Sajjad Akhtar.
Malik Javed Mehmood would be convener of the committee, while the other three would be its members.
The committee would probe into reasons/facts leading to collapse of the power system.
Failure of load safeguard system led to Pakistan power outage, say experts
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A massive power outage was reported late Saturday night from several cities across Pakistan. Photo: AFP
Improper maintenance of transmission lines, load safeguard system failure responsible for major power outage, say technical experts
NTDC constitutes panel to investigate what happened
Technical experts explain importance of having spinning reserves as an alternative
ISLAMABAD: The countrywide power outage in Pakistan Saturday night was because of improper maintenance of transmission lines (TLs) and a failure of the safeguard system against load at the Guddu power station.
It became worse because there were no spinning reserves, top officials from the power sector were quoted as saying by
Seven officials suspended over nationwide power breakdown
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Seven officials suspended over nationwide power breakdown
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - The Central Power Generation Company has suspended seven of its employees working under Plant Manager-III for showing negligence that caused the electricity failure.
According to details, the suspended employees include Adl. Plant Manager Suhail Ahmed, Junior Engineer Deedar Ali Channa, Foreman, Ali Hassan Golo, Operator Ayyaz Hussain Dahar and Saeed Ahmed , besides attendants Siraj Ahmed Memon and Ilyas Ahmed.
Meanwhile, the NTDC constituted a four-member committee to look into facts and caused of collapse of power system, which plunged most of the country into dark.
Pakistan goes dark
ISLAMABAD: The entire country plunged into darkness after it suffered complete power breakdown few minutes before midnight.
The power blackout was caused by sudden drop of frequency in high transmission line (HTL) to 0 from 50.
According to initial report, a technical fault appeared in Guddu Power House at 11:45pm owing to which the frequency in high transmission line (HTL) instantly went down causing the closure of all power houses across the country.
Minister for Energy (Power Division) Omar Ayub Khan said: “The whole country has been exposed to electrical blackout and I am personally supervising the operation for restoration of power supply and right now I am in NPCC.” The Energy Minister further said that the blackout was caused after the frequency in the national power distribution system suddenly fell from 50 to zero.